Chromie: check out Gaddis. If James Joyce is Black Sabbath and Pynchon is Reverend Bizarre, then Gaddis is Pagan Altar. It's very very very obvious that Pynch was a big fan of THE RECOGNITIONS... he even stole a bunch of character names for V.
Until Gaddis's JR came out in the mid-70s, a lot of people thought Pynchon WAS Gaddis just writing under a pseudonym Also like Pynchon, Gaddis shunned the public eye. When asked for a picture to put on a book cover, Gaddis sent in this self-portrait:
The 50th instance is me making an Electric Wizard / Let Sleeping Corpses Lie thread. I'd bump it if only doomedparade would show up again. *runs away* *cries*
EDIT: Nope, make it 48. And the 49th is Jerry yelling at a(n) homosexual.