TR, quite Misc.....bringing up the Dead Souls comparison again

[Mark Kohut]

Redux..............

From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 4:43 PM
Subject: TR, quite Misc.....bringing up the Dead Souls comparison again


In which I mentioned this word which I learned from Nabokov's book on Gogol.....but this is from wikipedia and better said esp
as regards The Recognitions' resonances than i defined it: 

poshlost (an untranslatable Russian word which is perhaps best rendered as "self-satisfied inferiority", moral and spiritual, with overtones of middle-class pretentiousness, fake significance and philistinism).