Homer & Langley // Adams in V.?

[Carvill, John]

Really? I thought Alice's argument was utterly spurious. Then I briefly wondered if s/he could possibly be serious, then wondered what I was doing wondering any such thing....

On the other hand, that Pynchon McEwan letter was fascinating. Mostly by dint of its emergence, but also for the content. McEwan and Pynchon are said to be 'friends'. Either way it musta bin nice for Ian, having such a big hitter pile in on his behalf. If memory serves me, it was around the time of McEwan's 'Saturday'. I wonder what Pynchon thought of that book's questionable equivocations re. the invasion of Iraq.

Total tangent: what did you think of 'The Road', by the way? I went back through the archives a bit but didn't find as much as I expected.



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of David Morris
Sent: 16 July 2010 13:50
To: alice wellintown
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Subject: Re: Homer & Langley // Adams in V.?

I think Alice hits the nail on the head here.  P plays with history in
his fiction, not to display historical events, but to construct
intricate and vast realities of his own.

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:20 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> we still call some of shakespeare's plays histories. I guess we could call shakespeare an historical playwrite.