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>If I have a real enemy, a patriarch for my patricide, it’s probably Barth and Coover and Burroughs, even Nabokov and Pynchon.

>> No.9172038

>>9172009
this said with not a 10th of their talent

>> No.9172048

>>9172038
No surprise that he ended up killing himself

>> No.9172050

there's like 5 dfw threads up, stop.

>> No.9172055
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9172055

>I bet he's been smoking pot for the last twenty years watching TV

Is Pynchon just going to take this?

>> No.9172061

>>9172050
He was a great man and in trying times many like minded people tend to him for inspiration.

>> No.9172074

>>9172061
check the catalog and tend to him in one of the pre existing threads

>> No.9172079

>>9172074
tend to him here

>> No.9172080

>>9172055
Yea he wrote mason and dixon

>> No.9172137

>>9172048
>>9172038
Op baited this kind of comment with his lack of context, DFW is saying that he is struggling to overcome the influence of these writers in his work.