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From:

http://www.bookforum.com/archive/sum_05/pynchon.html

Jeffrey Eugenides:

"I've never been temperamentally disposed to conspiracy theories, and the darker preoccupations of Pynchon's work weren't what got to me. But great writers don't only describe the past or the present; they predict the future. Pynchon's estimate, back in 1973, of the path the postwar American imperium would take only seems more acute, valid, and prescient today that it did at the time. The things he was trying to teach me at twenty I'm only now beginning to learn, another life later."