McCarthy-Pynchon Connection
Hi all, I’m new to the forum. Been watching from the wings for a long time now, and decided I wanted to join the fun. I’m not sure that I’m posting this in the right place, but since my primary...
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No yeah. I’m a would-be Pynchon fan. Want to like him, grok him, because people I respect do, but so far haven’t finished one book, not even got very far. I think he falls in the same category as...
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Long time McCarthy fan, I consider myself also a Pynchon fan, although I have not yet finished his new one and I haven’t been in a bar for decades now, so you can’t have spoken with me. Last night...
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I don’t have anything to add here not having read much Pynchon but want to thank you for linking to my post about the BM Epilogue and to second Richard in encouraging you to post again soon....
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There are some (maybe many) similarities between Pynchon and McCarthy – but each is as unique/different to the other and are thus what makes them great. The language sometimes seems similar – but...
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Thought I’d post here rather than continue to derail the thread “Blood Meridian Title”: Here’s the relevant portion of my post from over there: I wonder how much [McCarthy and Pynchon] have in common,...
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And here’s a few more items for anyone who’s interested/doesn’t think I’m a blubbering paranoid idiot for going on about what simply must be a coincidence: In Bleeding Edge, after the main character...
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You people out there in The Internet may wonder why I’m even making note of all these things. The answer is, I don’t know. I’m certainly not crazy enough to start saying things like “Pynchon *is*...
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efscerbo: We didn’t derail the “Blood Meridian Title” thread because what I posted there about the McCarthy-Pynchon connection is relevant to Blood Meridian‘s title. Rather than quoting those posts...
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Ken, I wasn’t referring to you. Surely your posts were on topic in the other thread. Mine were not. Onward: Your post is very interesting. The extinction of the dodoes being comparable to the...
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Thought I’d post here rather than continue to derail the thread “Blood Meridian Title”: Here’s the relevant portion of my post from over there: I wonder how much [McCarthy and Pynchon] have in common,...
View ArticleReply To: McCarthy-Pynchon Connection
And here’s a few more items for anyone who’s interested/doesn’t think I’m a blubbering paranoid idiot for going on about what simply must be a coincidence: In Bleeding Edge, after the main character...
View ArticleReply To: McCarthy-Pynchon Connection
You people out there in The Internet may wonder why I’m even making note of all these things. The answer is, I don’t know. I’m certainly not crazy enough to start saying things like “Pynchon *is*...
View ArticleReply To: McCarthy-Pynchon Connection
efscerbo: We didn’t derail the “Blood Meridian Title” thread because what I posted there about the McCarthy-Pynchon connection is relevant to Blood Meridian‘s title. Rather than quoting those posts...
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Ken, I wasn’t referring to you. Surely your posts were on topic in the other thread. Mine were not. Onward: Your post is very interesting. The extinction of the dodoes being comparable to the...
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Hi all, I’m new to the forum. Been watching from the wings for a long time now, and decided I wanted to join the fun. I’m not sure that I’m posting this in the right place, but since my primary...
View ArticleReply To: McCarthy-Pynchon Connection
No yeah. I’m a would-be Pynchon fan. Want to like him, grok him, because people I respect do, but so far haven’t finished one book, not even got very far. I think he falls in the same category as...
View ArticleReply To: McCarthy-Pynchon Connection
Long time McCarthy fan, I consider myself also a Pynchon fan, although I have not yet finished his new one and I haven’t been in a bar for decades now, so you can’t have spoken with me. Last night...
View ArticleReply To: McCarthy-Pynchon Connection
I don’t have anything to add here not having read much Pynchon but want to thank you for linking to my post about the BM Epilogue and to second Richard in encouraging you to post again soon....
View ArticleReply To: McCarthy-Pynchon Connection
There are some (maybe many) similarities between Pynchon and McCarthy – but each is as unique/different to the other and are thus what makes them great. The language sometimes seems similar – but...
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