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[Robert Mahnke]

Mark, I don't see the connection there. Faulkner and Pynchon are just so different in that way. Take Tore's argument about Pynchon's global trilogy -- Yoknapatawpha County is really the antithesis of that, no?


> On Jan 23, 2016, at 02:51, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Speculative connection of the morning: 
> 
> Do you think that when Pynchon read Faulkner
> say he worked his postage stamp bit of reality,
> that (part of) the seed for that Crying metaphor
> started germinating? HIS postage stamp was 
> the unfolding of a more spacious America, ambitiously ALL of it
> since mail was national......? 
> 
> (That quiet, publicly humble, very private guy HAD HUGE AMBITION and
> I don't mean Crying here at all..."a short story marketed as a novel" written
> cause he needed the dough....BUT THE OTHERS! )
> 
> William Faulkner / Paris Review / Interview / postage stamp of ...
> www.quotenik.com/william-faulkner-paris-review-interview-postage-sta...
> "I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it."
> 
> 
> 
> 	John Grindrod (@Grindrod)
> 1/23/16, 3:55 AM
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