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>Can someone redpill me on Pynchon? Who is he

He was in signals intelligence in WW2. Gravity's Rainbow has a conspicuous knowledge of various German Wonder Weapon programs and related history that wouldn't become common knowledge academically or publically for another few decades after that. Crying Lot is hilarious. No one ought to read more than either of these. His Cornell Chum's Slaughterhouse-5 is far more significant than GR as a historical document and as literature; and his catalogue will have far greater staying power in print. His letter to Barth regarding Sotweed upon publishing Mason & Dickass marks him out as an enormous industry planted fag peddling badly typset obese doorstopper novels for Harold Bloom's mammon worshipping ilk to unduly glaze. What discernible talent is there is absolutely mid and insignificant to even the American Canon.

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Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon