Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site faron.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!linus!faron!wle
From: wle@faron.UUCP (Willard L Eastman)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: More on Pynchon - Nabokov
Message-ID: <497@faron.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 18:43:45 EST
Article-I.D.: faron.497
Posted: Tue Mar  4 18:43:45 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Mar-86 05:11:10 EST
References: <1341@decwrl.DEC.COM> <687@rti-sel.UUCP> <12127@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: The MITRE Coporation, Bedford, MA
Lines: 10

> 
>     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.