Not really Pynchon but starts with Lot 49...

[David Morris]

Eco's TNOTR is so over-rated.  It is just a pile-on of conspiracies that
have been cooked up by others before him.  Questionable sources is just
standard fare, not an allusion to COL49, IMHO.

David Morris

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> For the first time, I opened THE NAME OF THE ROSE. In English,
> 1983 or 1984 pubbed.
>
> I know one meme about it---one reason I never aggressively went to
> read it, pace fans, refuting is allowed---is ECO's line that IT--All
> Books?--are mead out of other books and he mixes historical
> reality and lotsa historical 'imagination" in this mystery.
>
> So, it begins with the story of a medieval manuscript, 14th Century,
> discovered first in the 18th Century and now rediscovered---"third in
> chronological order" sez the narrator---which narrator
> then finds another manuscript that seems to be a kind of source and
> the first one is no longer in the monastery library and is suspected
> now to be a forgery......
>
> THIS is a conceptual allusion to the Crying of Lot 49s internal work,
> no?...Or is this just generic...
> a whole historical meme about old manuscripts?....
>
> I cannot be the only one who has asked about this hugely-read work,
> right? yet I cannot easily find a
> link on the interwebs.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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