Bloom, from 1994, on Pynchon canonically, WTF?

[Mark Kohut]

I was recently given a copy of Bloom's "The Western Canon". Thanks to bcc hereon. 

Anyway, and forgive if this has long been posted, commented on and reposted, Bloom writes (p. 486): "Pynchon's best work can be said to marry
S. J. Perelman and Nathaniel West--remember, this is before "M & D" and "Against the Day"---but the canonical potential of "The Crying of Lot 49" depends more on our uncanny sense that it is being imitated by "Miss Lonelyhearts".....???

What does he mean here since "Miss Lonelyhearts" was written before TCof L49????.....

My read is that he means that Oedipa is as if she were the character Miss Lonelyhearts in that novel searching for her answers? But, quite a stretch and he would have said that more clearly.

Or, do we have a copyediting mistake? (Book is latest edition of the paperback) Should read 'is imitating' Miss Lonelyhearts????  But, that would be a major strike against its canonization in Bloom's terms.  Or is 'being 
intimated' by "Miss Lonelyhearts" what he means? --he does italicize showing he is referring to the work. 

Bloom does think "Miss Lonelyhearts" a classic, but a minor one in the overarching canon, I believe.