William Gass on Pynchon

[matthew cissell]

Hello,

 From one Cornell cat about a younger one:

 "I have tried to read Pynchon with no success so far, but then I
can’t read Whitman—I try. So we just have blank spots." (Interview by
Greg Gerke in Tin House, Winter 2012). Curiously, this is not unlike
what James Wood said about DFW, that he (Wood) had "blindnesses" that
were being corrected.

In case you didn't know, Gass (born in 1924) finished his PhD in Phil
at Cornell in '54, he studied under Max Black and briefly, I believe,
with Ludwig W. Oh, Gass was also in the Navy. What coincidences.

ciao
mc
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