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

[Mark Kohut]

It has been awhile since I have read Invisible Man, but it does
seem to me Pynchon was more schooled by The Recognitions
than Ellison's great novel.......

And, I think Erik is right that the quote very fits The Recognitions, which
I do not know as well so it does not come to mind as easily as my 
self-vaunted idjut-savant tunnel vision re Pynchon's work........



----- Original Message ----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, January 16, 2011 8:24:53 AM
Subject: Re: Did TRP take on this printed dare? In effect....

> He's talking about Wm. Gaddis and _The Recognitions_, but even there the timing 
>is off ... That's from 1955.

A long list of authors fit that description, some before and sone
after the date, some are poets, some playwrights... so, given the
date, if we're looking for a U.S.A.  American novelist, my choice is
Ellison's _Invisible Man_.

Slothrop is IM's white shadow. Pynchon was schooled by Ellison.