wallace-l: DFW Joke In Forthcoming Novel

[Allen Ruch]

I had the exact same thought!

Though I have to say, the description “paltry, masculine, but not illiterate” rubs me the wrong way. I mean…. “but not illiterate?” Thanks, I guess?

—Quail

From: Pynchon-l <pynchon-l-bounces at waste.org> on behalf of Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 7:13 AM
To: Paul Cray <pmcray at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Re: wallace-l: DFW Joke In Forthcoming Novel
And a near-allusion, like an off-rhyme to Gaddis's novel? Esp
its meaning??

Love this too.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 5:34 PM Paul Cray <pmcray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: Michael Gural-Maiello <destor23 at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 20:13
> Subject: wallace-l: DFW Joke In Forthcoming Novel
> To: wallace-l <wallace-l at waste.org>
>
>
> From End of the World House, out in late April by Adrienne Celt:
>
> "One Sunday afternoon, while browsing his bookshelf -- paltry, masculine,
> but not illiterate -- she found a childhood photo of him stuck between
> *Gravity's
> Rainbow* and *Infinite Jest*, and gasped at her instant sense of
> recognition."
>
> It gave me a chuckle. I like the use of Pynchon and Wallace here in not the
> usual way.
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