an opinion on TRP and HJ

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Thanks for the WF comparison. He is one of the brightest stars in my 
literary firmament, and your point will lead me to much cogitation. Mark 
Twain might fit somewhere in here. Quite different, of course, but 
interesting connections. I haven't seen IV, so I do not know what is in it.

Does anyone know if TRP has been influenced by Twain? Surely, he has read 
him.

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From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: "Page" <page at quesnelbc.com>
Cc: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: an opinion on TRP and HJ


> compare Pynchon to say Faulkner who had both scope of vision and
> really vivid characters. That doesn't make me like WF more mind you as
> Pynchon is more to my taste
>
> I also get the sense that what is bugging me about IV is its
> irrelevance to the times we're living in now (even Vineland had a
> topical bent)--its also as if he decided to write another book about
> 1945 or the 1760s
>
> oh well, enough wittering as robert fripp once said
>
> rich
>
>
> On 7/23/09, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
>> I am not convinced that OBA is so very weak on character. He is no 
>> Dickens
>> or Steinbeck, but he is not incapable. Having said that, I agree that he
>> could do better. Is the discussion about more-or-less? A scale on which 
>> OBA
>> is not the heaviest weight?
>>
>> Whatever one's postion vis a vis character, Rich is right about richness 
>> of
>> prose and scope of vision.
>>
>> Thanks for the tip on the new Coover book.
>>
>> Page
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>> To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>> Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: an opinion on TRP and HJ
>>
>>
>>> as are many passages in AtD and M&D--I think we can agree that this is
>>> Pynchon's strength, his weakness for character is overshadowed by the
>>> richness of his prose and scope of vision, something that I think is
>>> not in books like Vineland and I suspect IV
>>>
>>> More is not less in Pynchon, more is better--my preference so I do
>>> hope for one more big book though I doubt it
>>>
>>> p.s. on PBS here in the US, on IV launch day, the Frost-Nixon
>>> interview is being shown.  Nice coincidence
>>>
>>> pps  Coover's new book Noir will be published in April (like The
>>> Kindly Ones, originally published in French)
>>> Rich
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>
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