We are pretty sure Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

read Hofstadter's Paranoid Style--or at least the long 1964 magazine
excerpt. Not sure about other work. We know he read this Henry Adams:
6 hours  <https://twitter.com/noctambulate/status/759359730015956992>

"It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by
intellectuals ... " – Hofstadter, ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICAN LIFE

Hofstadter, snappishly, of "The Education of Henry Adams": a "masterpiece
in the artistry of self pity."
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