Pynchon reference for today

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Word  of the Day for Thursday  March 9, 2006

contradistinction  \kon-truh-dis-TINK-shuhn\, noun:
Distinction by contrast; as,  "sculpture in contradistinction to  painting."

In the quarter-century since "Gravity's   Rainbow," American  novelists  have 
 increasingly fixed their  boldest inventions in the past, usually their own 
early years or a  time  long before they were born -- in contradistinction to 
postwar writers  who vigorously peeled away World War II and the social fabric 
of the  1950's.
--Gary Giddins, "Escape to New  York," New  York  Times, September  20, 1998


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