Pynchon, Prescience, and Stockhausen

[rich]

On Feb 12, 2008 12:41 PM, grladams at teleport.com <grladams at teleport.com> wrote:
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> so instead for me, I note how this great literature transcends for me to a
> place i'd call a lens. how many times have i read a piece of history or
> article from a magazine, and then reflect on it within his writings? Causes
> me to read biographies and histories of transportation and commerce I
> wouldn't have noticed before. Brings me into a curiosity one can compare
> with Oedipa's in COL49,
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I think is a wonderful insight--reading Pynchon made me aware of and
interested in so many diverse topics, and encouraged lots of free-time
reading of things I would never have read about.

The only other writer who I have experienced this with has been William Gaddis

Rich