re. Tarot and Gaddis?

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

On 23.03.2011 00:08, Erik T. Burns wrote:

>
> Finally, there's a /Paris Review/ interview with William Gaddis from 
> 1986: 
> http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2577/the-art-of-fiction-no-101-william-gaddis -- 
> "What’s any artist but the dregs of his work: I gave that line to 
> Wyatt thirty-odd years ago and as far as I’m concerned it’s still valid."
>
>

In this interview it becomes obvious that Alchemy is relevant to "The 
Recognitions", which was
published in 1955. So, when Gaddis is corresponding on the Tarot in 
1963, this seems to indicate
an ongoing interest in the Hermetic Arts. My next question: Did Gaddis, 
in later books (or already
in "The Recognitions"), write about the Tarot in a way that could be 
compared to the way Pynchon
is writing about it in "Gravity's Rainbow" and "Against the Day"?

Kai


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