Pynchon and James' 'The Portrait of a Lady'

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I have started this book...posted a quote......need to reread Portrait of a Lady
There is a fine reader-response (students) remark early.

He observes that a man or two is sorta " interested" in the Lady when they---we---have
Hardly started to "know" her, just seen and met with social remarks...his male students accept this; his female students Generally do not like it.....

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On Nov 30, 2012, at 9:59 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> "Hemingway famously said all modern American fiction came from 'Huckleberry Finn,' which may be true of relatively undemanding fiction such as his; but the more demanding work of Faulkner, Gaddis, Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and others (Gorra implies) comes from 'The Portrait of a Lady.' "
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/portrait-of-a-novel-looks-at-henry-james-and-the-bridge-to-modernism/2012/11/29/0b0394fc-3277-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html
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> or: 
> http://tinyurl.com/bmjpcco
> 
> 
> Bekah
> Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. 
> William Gaddis 
>