Rocketmen & Wastelands

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:50 AM, John Carvill wrote:

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> Haven't seen this mentioned on p-list yet, just found it on Quail's
> site, an award-winning essay on Pynchon's first 3 novels by Marshall
> Shord. Anybody read it yet? Thoughts?


Far fetched connection between Joyce and Pynchon but this prize- 
winning essay (thesis) of a college senior may be no worse than a  
great number of other pieces of academic Pynchon criticism. And he's  
got three years of graduate school to improve.




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> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/shord.pdf
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> http://news.washcoll.edu/press_releases/ 
> 2006/05/21_sophiekerrprize.html
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> Great stuff with the countdown, Quail...........
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