anthony burgess pynchon fan/trp in valletta?

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 18:12:10 CDT 2018


Yes.  And Pynchon was never famous for realistic portrayals of locations.
That's not his gig.  Burgess was making a cheap shot.

David Morris

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 6:04 PM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> And I've never been to heaven....so wha?
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 4:19 PM Krafft, John M. <krafftjm at miamioh.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Have I missed something in this thread, or doesn't everybody know by
> > now that Pynchon's ship, the _Hank_, docked in Malta during the Suez
> > crisis? Burgess himself seemed surprised when I told him about that
> > Pynchon-biographical detail in 1974 (he visited SUNY Buffalo that
> > year). Hey, he  made a snide assumption, and Pynchon called him on it.
> >
> > John
> >
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