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

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Why should these disparate systems be linked in
a single book by any author? I ask, dumbly. What
do they have in common beside besides the
megalomaniacal ambitions of the author?


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, Jan 15, 2011 6:14 pm
Subject: Did TRP take on this printed dare? In effect....


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. ...!!!