Informant38

Writers are bad to ask about this though, because we're all egomaniacs, and we all want to be utterly unique and, you know, not like anybody else, and so there's a certain amount of bristling about it, but after a while there's just no way to help it. Gravity's Rainbow is a great book, but for the most part Pynchon kind of annoys me, and I think his approach to a certain amount of stuff is kind of shallow, to be honest with you. So I get uncomfortable about that, and when people ask it over and over again I get the sense that they're saying they think I'm ripping him off or just rehashing stuff he's done........

{the somewhat inimicable D.F.Wallace. people who think Wallace is some kind of heir to Pynchon should read Jim Dodge, or Paul West. not because they're the heirs to him, but because it's a silly thing to think about, as these two others make plain.}