Pynchon's vaunted list-making

[Thomas Eckhardt]

The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.

Thomas


Am 01.05.2013 16:04, schrieb Mark Kohut:
> 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?