Pynchon's vaunted list-making

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A-and of course the books of whales in Moby Dick (and clam chowders, etc)

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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 03:41:50 
To: Prashant Kumar<siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>; pynchon -l<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Reply-To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Pynchon's vaunted list-making

I meant P's fiction, but the history is interesting as we so often are. 
 
I meant THE fiction of P because I wondered if Farina's incriedible list in his
novel might have started him on his. If none in V. 

From: Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: Pynchon's vaunted list-making



Wait, Mark: do you mean fiction generally or P's fiction? 

P.



On 2 May 2013 00:04, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

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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