The WreckIgnitions Read. Snarky question
Richard Ryan
himself at richardryan.com
Sat Apr 9 09:35:35 CDT 2011
Concur. Gaddis: dry, wry. Pynchon: boisterous, sometime (to his
cost) buffoonish.
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gaddis, Pynchon, both 'comic' writers--as Erik Burns has helped me--us?--focus
> on.
>
>
> But Gaddis's wit, so laconic via the narrator, as They say of English wit is
> much
> more what we have come to label snarky than Pynchon's
>
> Which is, often simply juvenile and otherwise just Falstaff-exuberant on the
> page.
>
>
> Yes? Discuss among ourselves.....
>
>
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