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[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 17/07/2006:

> Banal and slightly pompous, yes. As are a lot of his blurbs and 
> non-fiction. [...]

And not that there's anything intrinsically wrong with those two 
qualities in blurbs, reviews, criticism etc.

To my ear, it doesn't sound all that much like the Pynchon of the 
Orwell, Barthelme, Stone Junction or Spike Jones intros.

This one might bear some comparison:

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_cholera.html

Reading the "historical record" through the lens of the actual novel is 
a better way to, well, read the novel, imho. WWI? Groucho Marx? What's 
to research? And cribbing for it sounds a little like getting one's 
opinions ready beforehand, regardless of what's in the book.

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