P. Speculating on P.

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Definitely seconded!

Hofstadter's most famous essay may be found here:

https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/

This is also highly recommended reading for M&D (e.g. with 
regard to books about Canadian nuns escaping from 
nunneries and, of course, historical conspiracy theories 
concerning Jesuits, Masons etc.).





On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 06:49:51 -0500
  Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've read much of the major published stuff on Pynchon,
> books and major articles and I cannot remember much
> space given, as sources of his researched vision, to
> Richard Hofstadter.
-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l