V. for Vital

[Markekohut]

I have learned from a slim later volume of his memoirs, as Larry McMurtry spoke of and pointed to his shelf of
Postmodern writers from the Day---Barthelme, Pynchon---that the best book among them and Pynchon's best ---was V.

( l learned he was great friends with Susan Sontag, another voracious reader who famously thought GR did not transcend Sci-Fi, (Another put-down diss) , which might have shaped his
Judgment on Pynchon since he is as much into genre as non personally. 




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On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:17 AM, "Rev'd Seventy-Six" <revd.76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> "....Pynchon’s novel arrived just as the U.S. made its way out of the miry bog of World War II to enter murky Cold War swamplands. An assassin shot President Kennedy dead just a few months after V. hit the bookstores. Cue the Vietnam War, Watergate and the loss of any starry-eyed confidence in the West’s so-called peacemakers. Fast forward to today’s Wars—Terror, Iraq, Drugs, Marriage—and V. seems even more prophetic today than on first arrival. Was Pynchon right? Will we keep searching for meaning in a world that gives us less of it every year? Have we all become Benny Profane in the sewers of New York City, hunting alligators in the darkness as a last-ditch effort to make sense of ourselves?"
> 
> Drugs, Homeless, Religion, Terror, Christmas, Marriage, u.s.w.
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