aw. RE: New Year Reading

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

It seems to be from his blurb for the 1996 reissue.

**Nog
Rudolph Wurlitzer
(1970)
Serpent's Tail, 1996, ISBN 1852424230; Paperback, $12.00. [Browse/Purchase]
Pynchon writes: Wow, this is some book, I mean it's more than a beautiful and heavy trip, it's also very important in an evolutionary way, showing us directions we could be moving in -- hopefully another sign that the Novel of Bullshit is dead and some kind of re-enlightenment is beginning to arrive, to take hold. Rudolph Wurlitzer is really, really good, and I hope he manages to come down again soon, long enough anyhow to guide us on another one like Nog.**

(Cf. http://www.themodernword.com/Pynchon/pynchon_essays_blurbs.html)

Now, they really found the blurb's only sentence-fragment that could be used one more time.
The rest sounds like a telephone conversation. But let's face it: The essay was never Tom's
favourite genre, was it? This goes also (and perhaps: especially) for the Slow Learner intro,
though this is the one and only poetological utterance of Pynchon we have. Over the years I've
come to distrust it more and more. The writer is playing games with his readers ...    
 
KFL
 
>
> Where's that Pynchon quote ("The Novel of Bullshit is dead") from?
>
> Does anybody know?
>
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>> From: keithsz at mac.com
>> Subject: Re: New Year Reading
>> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:42:08 -0800
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>
>> http://www.rudywurlitzer.com/nog.htm
>>