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[Mark Kohut]

Wonderful, analogously fitting quote but, again, you are wrong that Pynchon would agree with "badly-written". He KNEW what he had wrought. 

Remember the anecdote wherein he tells the Viking person that "he typed it all out himself?" From the graph paper with his peculiar---half-printing, half-writing, said Vera Nabokov---handwriting? 

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On Feb 27, 2014, at 9:21 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:

> "It is a badly written book, poorly organized; any layman who,
> beguiled by the author's previous reputation, bought the book was
> cheated of his five shillings. . . . It is arrogant, bad tempered,
> polemical and not overly generous in its acknowledgments. It abounds
> in mares' nests and confusions. . . . In short, it is a work of
> genius."
> 
> --Paul Samuelson
> 
> Of course, Samuelson was speaking not of Pynchon's GR, but of Keynes's
> GT. But it might be applied. Some will quibble with the "badly
> written" phrase, though I think Pynchon wouldn't.
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