NP: Great Dismal is William Gibson

[Joe Allonby]

Edgar Cayce

Guided by Voices

Israeli spy Jon Pollard.


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like PR a lot. The similarities with COL49 struck me when I read it
> too. How about the name "Cayce Pollard"?
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Heikki:
>>
>>> Do you know if PR criticism contains comparisons of Cayce Pollard and Oedipa Maas?
>>
>> It does, beginning with Lisa Zeidner's review in NYT (19 January 2003). Fredric Jameson
>> also compares PR to Lot 49 in his essay in the New Left Review ("Fear and Loathing in
>> Globalization"), as does Steen Christiansen in an essay called "Transtextuality,
>> Paranoia, and Apohenia." I'm sure there are more - there should be, at any rate, since
>> the similarities between PR and Lot 49, and between Oedipa and Cayce, are numerous.
>> There are also a couple of overt Pynchon references in PR.
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