Pynchon & Roth thread

[Mark Kohut]

P writes:
I'm not sure sure I wouldn't quite enjoy a book full of Blicero.  He was a 
pretty marvelous creation.


which focuses something quite perfectly, I think. The great (and yet greatly 
limited) reader, james wood--we
call him a 'critic' said in his review of Against the Day that that book had no 
white whale and also that, whatever he was, Blicero was no Ahab and therefore 
NOT unforgettable (as a character, he meant, of course)

In my letter I told him, among other things, that Blicero was 
unforgettable......