Contemporary Fiction

[Ya Sam]

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>No no, I was referring to your and Doug's assertion that you're better
>off discovering books/writers for yourself, rather than listening to
>what anyone on some internet list might say. I was just joking though.

1. That doesn't mean that I don't give a damn about any advice I might get, 
I did discover a couple of names solely thanks to the P-list, for instance, 
my point is it's just more exciting to stumble upon a name while it's not 
yet compartmentalised. I wish I had run into a Pynchon 'from a scratch', it 
would have been more rewarding for me as a reader.
2. Who is Doug?

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>Personally, I doubt it. We'll have to agree to disagree on that. I hope
>I'm wrong of course. I know what you mean, there is a tendency to think
>everything is getting worse, every generation thinks the next one is
>dumber and so on. This phenomenon exists, I'm aware of it. But, on the
>other hand, things *are* getting worse, our culture *is* getting dumber,
>etc.

Yeah, let's disagree on this one. Time will show.


>And thanks to Bush and his ilk, will there be enough time left for the
>world to throw up a new Pynchon?
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Well, the activity of such characters as Bush is exactly that catalyst which 
might throw up a new Pynchon. Great names spring up on the background of 
great tragedy, starting with Homer's Iliad and so on till the present day. 
Of course, provided that the the Earth isn't completely destroyed.


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