Bloom on BM

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:20 PM
Subject: Bloom on BM


> http://www.avclub.com/articles/harold-bloom-on-blood-meridian,29214/
>
> a book I can't help revisiting every few years--wolves, apaches, gun
> smoke, and the Judge
>
> I don’t know what I would choose if I had to select a single work of
> sublime fiction from the last century, it probably would not be
> something by Roth or McCarthy; it would probably be Mason & Dixon, if
> it were a full-scale book, or if it were a short novel it would
> probably be The Crying Of Lot 49. Pynchon has the same relation to
> fiction, I think, that my friend John Ashbery has to poetry: he is
> beyond compare.

If you asked Pynchon to make the same choice he would probably answer the 
complete Porky Pig.

Geniuses like P and Bloom love to put down their all-too-predictable 
interviewers.

P
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