Bloom on BM

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: Bloom on BM


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> 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
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>> http://www.avclub.com/articles/harold-bloom-on-blood-meridian,29214/
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>> 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.
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> If you asked Pynchon to make the same choice he would probably answer the 
> complete Porky Pig.
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> Geniuses like P and Bloom love to put down their all-too-predictable 
> interviewers.
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> P
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Oops I meant "put on," not "put down."