I was gonna 'research' this more before

[Mark Kohut]

yeah, my speculation anyway is that those he does acknowledge are
important in minor ways...stylistic mostly. He nudges us
a little to get some influences 'of his time".

And the deep influences are in the work for us to find. Or not.

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Insufficient data, insufficient sample size. P has revealed so little about
> influences and sources (compared to the scope of the oeuvre) that I'm
>
> (1) wary of inferences that those
> he does acknowledge are especially canonical for him, and
>
>
> (2) very wary of inferences from what he *doesn't* say.
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