[net.books] More on Pynchon - Nabokov

wle@faron.UUCP (Willard L Eastman) (03/05/86)

> 
>     I am a little disturbed that Pynchon is still around, as I had thought
> he was a fictional creation of Vladimir Nabokov. This made sense, as Nabokov
> was about twice as good a writer as Pynchon, and Cornell was a good place to
> invent him. :-).
> 
> ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720

twice as good - - - and in at least three languages! Still, I'm grateful for
the discussion and am enjoying G.R., a very funny book.