Pynchon's vaunted list-making

[Matthew Cissell]

Mikhail Bakhtin mentions lists in Pantagruel and Gargantuan and others but of course he couldn't have known about lists in Joyce's Ulysses, check out the bit about the Citizen.

J. Wood criticises T.P for the lists, but that's J. Dub.

You could say that writing begins with lists. If I'm not mistaken some of the earliest examples of writing were labels or lists of goods.

mc otis



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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Pynchon's vaunted list-making



When did that start in the fiction? I cannot easily remember any in V. (without
checking) but I ask because there is an extensive one early in Been Down So Long It Looks Like
Up to Me, published after V., of course, but surely read by Pynchon before it and Crying of Lot
49 were published in 1966?   
There is a sort of list in Lot 49, with poignant detritus stuff in Mucho Maas' cars.......another?