aaw@pyuxss.UUCP (Aaron Werman) (04/04/84)
(Ame'rique Je T'Aime and it may be fun to be fooled
Another vote for Pynchon, my favorite living writer. Techies should
note his (all true Pynchon fans agree) least novel, 'The Crying of
Lot 49' is set in Cuppertino or somesuch, and describes a pre-Email
network. The college was Cornell. He has enough class to bring tears
to your eyes. All fans of early Nabakov will love him. All others are
irrelevant.
{harpo,houxm,ihnp4}!pyuxss!aaw
Aaron Wermanriddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (04/05/84)
Is it true that after the publication of his better-known works,
Pynchon disappeared from sight and no one who's talking knows where he
is?
I've also heard the tale that Pynchon attended Vladimir Nabokov's
famous creative writing classes at <insert name of appropriate
Northeastern school>. When asked years later about his former student,
Nabokov couldn't recall a thing, but Nabokov's wife, who helped him
grade papers, remembered Pynchon quite well: it seems that he had
exceptionally good (or was it bad?) handwriting.
For those of you who don't know Pynchon's work, I recommend it highly.
The books to watch for are "V." and "Gravity's Rainbow". For a brief
introduction to Pynchon, guaranteed to get you hooked on him if you're
at all the sort of person to whom he appeals, beg, borrow or steal a
copy of "V." and read the chapter entitled, "In Which Esther Gets a
Nose Job". (It's self-contained and was originally published in
slightly modified form as a short story.)
--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
--- {ihnp4,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle