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Subject: Nabokov and Pynchon
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Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 01:03:02 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 01:03:02 1986
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A friend of mine was an intimate of Nabokov in Geneva in the early 1970's
and reports that Nabokov hated Pynchon. He reportedly referred to 
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW as a "comic book" and "trash." The mention of Pynchon's
name on the occasion in question led to an even longer string of insults
which I cannot now remember in detail. In any event, it seems unlikely
(the obvious stylistic differences aside) that Nabokov and Pynchon could
have been the same person.