Critical Thinking

[Don Higgins]

I remember that TRP spoke of novels that seem to have become GR, Mason & Dixon and, yes, Against the Day in that letter he wrote Cork Smith. 
Which letter to Cork? The Fond Ghoul letters are all about V. and the only other letters I've heard about (quoted in "From A to V") concern GR. P discusses three novels in a letter to the Sales and four in another one to them after V. but before CL49 and announces M&D in a letter to Donadio in '75 (at least according to Gussow). Three years latter M&D is mentioned in Newsweek.  I'm not sure those three or four novels includes CL49, which P described as "a short story with a gland problem." Pandemonium of the Sun could be AtD but could also be a joke.  Who knows? I'd liked to read that paper that argues all the big novels were begun after V. but can't find the abstract so don't know who to write to ask for a copy or where it might be published. I'm almost positive the abstract was part of a conference announcement.
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