Where's Pynchon on the Modern Library List?

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>From my experience I would say that there is too much time spent on
breezing and re-breezing past the "classics" (which is variable
depending upon the professor you get) and not enough on what has been
going on in more modern times.  I would have never read Joyce during
college if not for taking an extra class, for example, which sort of,
er, surprises me.  I've come to the conclusion that undergrad classes
are mainly meant to give you a smattering of Victorian / Greek / early
American (i.e. Native American, Bernal Diaz, Cabaza de Vaca type work)
and a pat on the butt to get either into grad school or middle
management thanks to the math requirement.

On 12/8/06, Steven <mcquaryq at comcast.net> wrote:
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>  And I thought I was his only fan...:o)  Some of the humor in Mulligan Stew,
> the paragraphs fairly early on dealing with the nature of 'bourbon and
> branch' are suggestive or reminiscent of the Kenosha Kid pages in GR.
> Otherwise, he's pretty far out there compared to the other pmodern authors
> you list.  More experimentalist, I mean.
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> On Dec 8, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Ya Sam wrote:
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> No Gilbert Sorrentino.
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> Steven
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