Pynchon's reply

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Dave is here referring to an article by Rob Jackson in the Pynchon
>> Notes, for those of us who may not have known that.
>> (I have list-nanny inclinations...will try to find said article on post a link)
>
> I guess I saw it in one of my hard-copy Pynchon Notes?

Not online, not yet, at any rate, but well worth reading, both for its
own virtues (not the least of which is simply introducing an
unfamiliar Antipodean Nobel laureate to Those Who Might Not Know;
also, for all the popularly priced pistol play perpetrated,, uh,
between us, Robt. is of course, even when NOT on his best behavior, an
observant commentator and a capable writer), and for the illuminating,
not to mention stark, contrast in which it casts his more plaintive
posts here ...