Re: ‘What You Like or What You’re Like?’

[James Kyllo]

It's the years of their graduation from Cornell

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave Monroe wrote:
>
>> One of my Facebook friends posted a status that was all, “Why can’t
>> The Sun publish educated opinions?” So, here goes nothing: David
>> Foster Wallace is the poor man’s Thomas Pynchon ’59. Pynchon is the
>> pretentious man’s Vonnegut ’44. Bam. Moving on....
>>
>
> huh?  what's with the '59 and the '44?  In 1959, Pynchon hadn't even
> published anything, had he?
> and in 1944, Vonnegut was in Dresden or at least headed in that direction.
>
> some new youth thing?
>
>



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