anthony burgess pynchon fan/trp in valletta?

[Mark Kohut]

I have read this this way: pynchon asking Burgess a question that he could not answer--because he, p, HAD been there

After his words in SLOW LEARNING about getting it right, I think he must have been there.

One can say, as a book on Burgess did, that his novels are all imagined; all "romances" in the sense that they are not reality-based at all. I can see that and I have read some of them. 

P may have been ambiguously asking: Have you
And what did I get wrong? 

I like the P cameo possibility. I think there is one in ATD. 

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> On Sep 27, 2018, at 1:31 PM, "peterthooper at juno.com" <peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:
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> https://www.anthonyburgess.org/object-of-the-week/object-week-pynchonalia/
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> "The archive contains one piece of correspondence between Pynchon and Burgess. In an undated letter Pynchon responds to Burgess’s claim that in V. ‘Pynchon gives us Malta without having been there’ by asking ‘How do you know this?’ It is likely that he was reacting to Burgess’s 1973 interview in the Paris Review, in which Burgess says, ‘Probably (as Thomas Pynchon never went to Valletta or Kafka to America) it’s best to imagine your own foreign country’."
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> imho, the tall, nauseated sailor riding the bus in one of the current-day scenes in Valletta in _V._ is a TRP cameo.
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