Pynchon's vaunted list-making

[Lemuel Underwing]

Hume ascribes his Listing to Encyclopedic tendencies... the Encyclopedia
has something of a role in M&D... I'd say it starts 'round tCoL49...?


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.
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> Thomas
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> Am 01.05.2013 16:04, schrieb Mark Kohut:
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>  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?
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