Well I just reread Vineland and the news is still bad...

[David Morris]

Another example of this pattern is Nabokov after *Lolita* (but many
will disagree).

On 6/13/07, bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> I think it just happens sometimes.   An exceptional author pens an incredible fiction, his magnum opus,  and nothing he can do later will ever top it - or even be equal.   And yet he will write because that's what he does,  that's who he is.