Pynchon's reading

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Could be, Monte, but this spy master plot is common enough in the fiction P
read and, in the cold war life he lived through. Right?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've always thought that both the White Visitation's Schwarzcommando plan
> to disturb the dreams of the Reich and its own belief in Slothrop's starry
> map owed something to 'Our Man in Havana', in which the spymasters eagerly
> receive and amplify a feckless informant's fabrications.
>
> (As a fan of  the Greene book and Guinness movie, I had anticipatory
> doubts about Le Carre's homage/update in 'The Tailor of Panama' and the
> 2001 movie, but both turned out well, setting a high bar for quasi-remakes.)
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Scholars, academic and independent--some of us--have
>> explored Pynchon's elusive allusive sources in classic and important
>> major books.
>> Pynchon has given us or confirmed a few. A voracious reader, some books
>> drunk deep,
>> others, as he in SLOW LEARNER and as Paul M.reminds, just surface-skimmed
>> for
>> his writing needs.
>>
>> But we know he reads, read, many novels when brand new. See *Mumbo
>> Jumbo. *
>> He mentions *Our Man In*
>> *Havana* in SL. We are pretty sure about *Catch--22.* He must have kept
>> up with LeCarre
>> as he published his now 26, i think again SL. Most of us assume he read
>> the books he has blurbed.
>> Others we know of?
>>
>> I imagine a steadily-working writer, who, however. with firm
>> self-criticism, considered himself slothful, like another productive
>> writer, Sam Johnson who would write as well s he could most days, research
>> and plan on others and would read--and watch TV and go to the movies--many
>> a night and weekend.
>>
>> Nothing special here I know, just putting it down.
>>
>>
>>
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