A world w/o Baedeker Girls

[Mark Kohut]

I suggest probably not..much...just the best whom he contemporarily 
canonized---oxymoron intended. 

i suggest P read mostly writers of fiction---including Kafka, say, whom bunny W. 
dissed famously and 

non-fic tht built his vision...and some deep scholars, Empson, Richards, 
etc....who helped him frame
his ambiuities................



----- Original Message ----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, July 16, 2010 12:15:05 AM
Subject: A world w/o Baedeker Girls

Nabokov's Lolita, Edmund Wilson, FS Fitzgerald, TS Eliot.
So, I did the job on Eliot's Jews and Freud's cigar and the Baedekered
and yellowed newpaper hat journalist, and how Nabokov, a wandering
Humbert from languages east of english came to america in search of a
pins in the map motel room setting for his butterflies to fly from,
and of course how fitz has these baedeker legs swinging beautiful and
damned mechanical bride limbs with precision or drinking under the
pools of light at james gatz's flat-ended egg, but did I mention
edmund wilson's europe w/o baedekers? Wilson ties all these writer's
together. Did young P read, study wilson?