Bloom, from 1994, on Pynchon canonically, WTF?

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Mark quoted:

> the canonical potential of "The Crying of Lot 49" depends more on 
> our uncanny sense that it is being imitated by "Miss Lonelyhearts".....???

Yeah, malignd has got that one right: not a typo (and I think his 
description of Bloom's Bloomness is right on the money as well). As
for what exactly is being imitated in an ass backwards manner here,
my guess is that Bloom is thinking of the two novels' many portraits
of the rejects of American society, of the human waste we usually 
choose to ignore. That, to me, is the emotional core of both novels.
 
Plus which, "Miss Lonelyhearts" actually employs the term "entropy" -
to my knowledge the first time the term appears in a major novel. 		 	   		  
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