Back to our regularly scheduled novelist.

[Robin Landseadel]

On Nov 29, 2008, at 10:52 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> (am I the only one who thinks IV was written back in the  late
> 60s-early 70s, its title being a self-referential joke about
> poor-quality items prone to decay?).

Maybe, though I'm sure it's got that autobiographical aura of
Vineland and the intro to Slow Learner. I have yet to finish
Gaddis "The Recognitions" and know I should. Some notions
of fraudulence and self-obscelecence stalk The Crying of Lot
49 and 'returning to the scene of the crime"---what OBA might
consider his worst literary crime---makes sense to me,
rather than pulling out an old story from G-d knows where.
But there's always the possibility that we'll never know.

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