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Great Expectations
A profane commentary on the hoopla surrounding the summer's biggest book, Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.
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meanings into the irascible
novelist's words made him sound
disturbingly like Salinger's
most famous explicator, Mark
David Chapman.
Lord have mercy on us, we want a
great writer. But we'll settle
for a 32-year-old short story
that takes the form of a
summer-camp letter from a
7-year-old kid.
Grant both Pynchon and Salinger
this much: Their scams have been
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