The Case for Thomas Pynchon

[rich]

funny, there is an early simpsons episode with a big bruiser of a wrestler
named Werner Von Braun

rich


On 9/12/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I missed it, at any rate.  Thanks!
>
> But I'd throw in Baron von Raschke or The Crusher as a
> tagteam partner ...
>
> http://www.baronvonraschke.com/
>
> http://www.wrestlingmuseum.com/pages/bios/crusher2.html
>
> Dick the Bruiser, George "Scrap Iron" Gadasky ...
>
> --- John Carvill <JCarvill at algsoftware.com> wrote:
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> > [Usual apologies if this was posted previously]
> >
> >
> > "Pynchon dips in and out of perspectives in a single
> > paragraph without notice, fuses reality with fantasy
> > without rousing disbelief and purposefully obscures
> > to make the reader feel the same discomfort and
> > paranoia that his characters experience. His
> > intelligence shines on the thick mud of his prose to
> > reveal its beauty.
> >
> > In a media-saturated age, in which a text is always
> > polluted by the author's real life, Pynchon, 64,
> > lets his work stand alone. He has done no interviews
> > and allowed no current pictures. Almost nothing is
> > known about his life after his graduation from
> > Cornell in 1959.
> >
> > In a steel-caged, no-holds-barred match in which our
> > country had to send one living writer to wrestle
> > against the globe's Gabriel García Marquez and
> > history's Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky, I'd feel most
> > comfortable sending in Thomas Pynchon."
> >
> >
> http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/americasbest/pro.pynchon.html
> >
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