Parochial Plea

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:03 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just wanted to say, as we catch this wave out of IV (7), that I can't
> help but be personally saddened by the unmentioned reference to my
> native land here. From what I can remember, Pynchon has referred to
> Australia twice or perhaps thrice in his entire oeuvre, which puts the
> place well below most other countries and indeed continents....

Jackson, Robert. "Intertextualism: The Case of Pynchon and Patrick White."
   Pynchon Notes 46–49 (2000–2001): 60–104.

http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pncumbib.html#J
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6750/is_46-49/ai_n28819967/

Patrick White

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_White
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1973/index.html