authors influenced by Pynchon

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i vote vollmann:

Silently Mantis hands Hank the key to the poolroom, in exchange for a dollar 
each from the two opponents; Hank unlocks the door and throws it open and 
turns on the light so Wayne can see the warped three-legged vaguely 
quadrilateral pool table with all of its green felt long since gone to green 
mold.  – “Awright!” says Wayne with a snort (and he clutches at the 
door-jamb for support, feelin’ his legs go a mite rubbery).  “If you think I 
can’t bust through this dumb setup you’re gonna be out for the fucking 
count.  And I s’pose the balls are ostrich eggs incubatin’ down on the 
farm?”  - No-Good Hank grins and winks back at his friends, who are holding 
their sides.  “Here they are, pard,” he tells Wayne gently, bringing them up 
from under the table in their shoebox; and funny to say they do look like 
eggs, like hardboiled Easter eggs dipped in coloring and now the shells are 
zigzagged with cracks and missing bits but still clinging to the tough 
sticky wobbly albumen lining (and the eight-ball is actually a bug-egg of 
some kind; and one of these days Mantis plans to roll it under the bar and 
fertilize it with his own jizzum and let all the horrors inside it loose).
p334 - YBARA

>From: Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com>
>To: kelber at mindspring.com
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: authors influenced by Pynchon
>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:51:37 +0400 (MSD)
>
>True, he engages in more elevated witticisms, but unlike many authors 
>described as Pynchonesque, his humor is as often as not less subtle & 
>erudite (& mathematickall) than the quoted example.  Frankly, one of the 
>funniest things I've ever read is Mrs. Quoad's Disgusting English Candy 
>Drill in GR.  "The Meggezone is like being belted in the head with a Swiss 
>Alp."  Again, not something I can imagine Wallace or Powers or DeLillo or 
>etc. doing, and it is at least one of the reasons that Pynch stands above 
>many of his contemporaries & followers.  What makes Pynchon unique is the 
>mastery he has over these different modes of expression.  He can be as 
>subtle and deep as Thomas Mann, and as broad as Groucho Marx, sometimes 
>within the course of one page.  If you can think of another author capable 
>of mastering such broad shifts in tone, let me know who they are, please.
>
>-Chris
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
>To: Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:41:45 AM
>Subject: Re: authors influenced by Pynchon
>
>
>But Pynchon's humor isn't limited to puns and other schtick.  He also does 
>this:
>
>"' ... Why would I mention my birthday in my sleep?  'Twas last week, 
>anyway.'
>
>'Congratulations, much Joy,' wish Mason and Dixon.
>
>'Twenty-nine's Fell Shadow!  O, inhospitably final year of any Pretense to 
>Youth, its Dreams now, how wither'd away ... tho styl'd a Prime, yet bid'st 
>thou Adieu to the Prime of Life! ...There, -- there, in the Stygian Mists 
>of Futurity, loometh the dread Thirty, -- Transition unspeakable!  Prime so 
>soon fallen, thy Virtue so easily broken, into a Number divisible, -- 
>penetrable! -- by six others!'"
>
>M&D, p.118
>
>
>Laura
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
> >From: Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com>
> >Sent: Oct 16, 2006 2:11 PM
> >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: Re: authors influenced by Pynchon
> >
> >Well, Powers certainly isn't funny (or at least the one book I read by 
>him, Operation Wandering Soul wasn't), but DFW has his moments 
>(particularly in his essays, which are my favorite things he's written).  
>The distinction between his brand of humor & Pynch's is that Pynch loves 
>slapstick, cartoons, bad puns & other general kinds of schtick.  One can't 
>imagine a DFW novel with a pie throwing scene, or a line like "I Ching 
>feet".
> >
> >Another thing that makes Pynch distinct is his portrayal of sexually 
>unusual practices.  Not that there aren't other authors who do this, I just 
>can't think of any 'Pynchonesque' authors who do.  I'm open to your 
>suggestions.
> >
> >-Chris
> >
> >----- Original Message ----
> >
> >Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:37:34 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
> >From: kelber at mindspring.com
> >Subject: Re: authors influenced by Pynchon
> >
> >Humor?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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