anthony burgess pynchon fan/trp in valletta?

[Mark Kohut]

If I had learned this, and I did have an uncertain memory that it was known
that Thomas visited Malta, I had forgotten it. Now I won't until I do
again.

I am glad Anthony Burgess was told. Facts matter.





On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 4:20 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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