Did TRP take on this printed dare? In effect....

[Mark Kohut]

So, i find in a thrift store today this paperback of The English Novel by Walter 
Allen,
orig 1954, 60s, in paperback in America, which I once had and read intoto 
learning of writers 

I wanted to read, how to and why. 

And, I see Thomas Love Peacock, whom I have never read and who many say
has influenced TRP. Sublime comic satirist, Allen sez----thru characters 
embodying ideas carried to their
 logical absurdity...THEN I read this:

FOR ANYTHING COMPARABLE IN OUR TIME WE WOULD NEED TO IMAGINE
A NOVELIST INTELLECTUALLY POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SATIRIZE IN ONE
BOOK THE EXPONENTS OF, SAY, MARXISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS, THE PSYCHOLOGY
OF JUNG, LOGICAL POSITIVISM, NEO-CATHOLICISM, EXISTENTIALISM, CHRISTIAN 
SCIENCE, ABSTRACT PAINTING. ...!!!

Sound like any writer you have read---in our time?? 

Sometimes, I can't believe what I read. If Pynchon never read this, and why 
would he even 

have bothered given his voracious plunge into original sources, 
 this is surely a Borges-like time-travel comment, at least, yes?