William Gass on Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

Speaking of which, this is pretty fascinating.
With Gass as an 'unreliable narrator' at first, as a tale-shaper
then, maybe, more reliable re the two two-hour sessions.

http://www.soc.cornell.edu/faculty/swedberg/Wittgenstein'sVisittoIthaca.pdf

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 7:14 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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