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Thu Sep 20 07:01:10 CDT 2007

>From: "Roman Kudryashov" <rkudryashov at gmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: ?
>Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:42:08 -0700

(...)

>As a corollary to writing about what we know, maybe we should add
>getting familiar with our ignorance, and the possibilities therein for
>ruining a good story  --  Thomas Pynchon

Sigh, I wish Tom would have thought of that more often while he was writing 
the Göttingen and Venice parts of AtD.
For an American novel that captures the atmosphere of Venice successfully do 
see Harold Brodkey's "Profane Friendship".

Kai