Where's Pynchon on the Modern Library List?

[Chris Broderick]

Tore sez RE: Dan's diss of Pynchon:

It's entirely possible to amass all of Dan's
educational credentials 
and
still have an attitude of "they're trying to put
something over on me": 
the
suspicion that some (or all) of modern literature,
art, and science is 
just
a balloon inflated by a cabal of fancy-pants
professors.  

So I say:

True.  Read "Hatchet Jobs" by Dale Peck for a fine &
funny example of that.  Still, Dan did mention that he
had taken a course or courses in postmodern
literature.  Love or hate that word as you may (I
always liked Hakim Bey's comment that no self
respecting artist wants to be post-anything, or, for
that matter, Moe Sizlak's comment, "It's PoMo!
...Postmodern!  ...weird for the sake of weird..."),
but it's hard to imagine one approaching the term PoMo
in literature without addressing Pynchon's works. 
Seems like studying modernism in literature without
reading Joyce, Proust or Woolf.  Sure you could learn
something, but there'd be some pretty gaping holes in
your knowledge...

-Chris

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