belated answer to Mark Twain Q

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There is a nice collection titled (as I recall) A Pen Warmed Up in Hell. 
Some of his late, nastier stuff. Never read a bad thing by him -- though 
Joan of Arc was not up to snuff. As it were.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: belated answer to Mark Twain Q


> Try some of Mark Twain's later, eviler works like "Letters From
> Earth." Twain and Pynchon share a similar disregard for plutocrats,
> both are wonderful verbal comics.
> On Jul 30, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> Page,
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>> Very little close Twain influence traced in most of the best books
>> on TRP's work that I've read. Just the general great comic
>> talents.....hey, he does the Jumping Frog on stereoids; on surreal
>> over-the-topness.....
>>
>> Curious to me: Tony Tanner at the end of his seminal monograph [his
>> ideas were seminal before this summary monograph] of 1981, mentions
>> a long list of writers who Pynchon has absorbed in his opinion.
>> Twain and James are
>> mentioned.
>> However, early in the monograph, when he has mentioned writers who
>> have influenced TRP and quoted Barthes on "mixing words", meaning
>> other writers' words, neither Twain nor James are on that list.
>>
>> I don't know Twain well but as with James, I do not myself see much
>> direct influence as we can point to with so many others.
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