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From: Byron Nilsson <byron@banilsson.com>
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>I would nominate Stephen Millhauser to the disciples list -- his use of
>language is manages to be both original and pleasingly reminiscent, and the
>novel "Edwin Mullhouse" is a faux-biography tour-de-force in a Nabokovian
way.
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>And there's certainly the tang of the ex-professor in Thomas Pynchon's
prose.
>Which means that, since H. Allen Smith claimed to be both Pynchon and
Salinger
>(and, I believe, he threw in B. Traven as well), does he get a nod as well?
It
>sure doesn't show in his prose, delightful as it is . . .
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>-- Byron Nilsson
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From: Byron Nilsson <byron@banilsson.com>
>
>----------------- Message requiring your approval (11
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>I would nominate Stephen Millhauser to the disciples list -- his use of
>language is manages to be both original and pleasingly reminiscent, and the
>novel "Edwin Mullhouse" is a faux-biography tour-de-force in a Nabokovian
way.
>
>And there's certainly the tang of the ex-professor in Thomas Pynchon's
prose.
>Which means that, since H. Allen Smith claimed to be both Pynchon and
Salinger
>(and, I believe, he threw in B. Traven as well), does he get a nod as well?
It
>sure doesn't show in his prose, delightful as it is . . .
>
>-- Byron Nilsson
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