Parody, satire (& even fantasy!) and Harold Bloom on...& on Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

"Satire, even parody, and most fantasy--these are now scarcely possible in
the United States."        [Best said by Roth in the way back time of the
sixties].
"How can you satirize Ronald Reagan or Jerry
Falwell? " [Let me count the ways NOW]
 "Pynchon's *The Crying of lot 49 *ceases to seem fantasy whenever I visit
Southern California, and a ride on the New York City subway tends to reduce
all
literary realism to an idealizing projection."---H. Bloom, 2009,
 in one of his probably dictated introductions to a book of essays on
Marquez.

Listers: is that second part of the sentence a buried allusion to the
subway scenes in V?

A: Nah. But I like it.
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