V2nd, C3

[Michael Bailey]

> (these are writers we compare with Joyce, with Picasso, are moving
> toward Joyce and the art of Europe and the bitter loss expressed in
> and by a collapsed and destroyed humanism in Europe, not Pynchon, who
> is not of their generation but of the generation of authors, like
> Farina, who identified with this Lost Gen I, for a bunch of
> reasons—again, see Slow Learner Intro., but were a new generation of
> Americans—a Kennedy Generation if you will).
>

True that.  Nonetheless; nonetheless: None the less!

"Have you read his F? O yes, but I prefer Q. Yes, but ... one reads
these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with
one who once..."

I don't even have to care if Pynchon was thinking about that line when
he titled V.  It still rings my chimes.




-- 
Yippy dippy dippy,
Flippy zippy zippy,
Smippy gdippy gdippy, too!
- Thomas Pynchon ("'Zo Meatman's Gone AWOL")