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jonnathanson on Sept 6, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: From Thomas Pynchon, a novel of the dot-com era an...

Pynchon is a lyricist and a madman, and he's damned good at being both. I wince when I read others trying to cop his style, even if momentarily. Troy Patterson is good, often really good, but he sounds fake here.

derleth on Sept 7, 2013 [–]

> I wince when I read others trying to cop his style, even if momentarily.

The same is true for me when people try to copy Faulkner, or James Joyce, or Hunter Thompson, or, from another angle, Hemingway.

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