The Case for Thomas Pynchon

[malignd at aol.com]

This Joel Stein should be writing fashion news.  An idiot ...

-----Original Message-----
From: monropolitan at yahoo.com
To: JCarvill at algsoftware.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: The Case for Thomas Pynchon

   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:

> [Usual apologies if this was posted previously]
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> "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.
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> 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.
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> 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."
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/americasbest/pro.pynchon.html
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