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Mathew Winston, «The Quest for Pynchon», Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon, ed. George Levine and David Levernez (Boston-Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1976) 258. (N. from the A.)
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Joseph W. Slade, «'Entropy' and Other Calamities», Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Edward Mendelson (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978) 73. (N. from the A.)
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Fredson Bowers, Editor's Preface, Lectures on Don Quixote by Vladimir Nabokov, viii. (N. from the A.)
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Pynchon's interest in Hispanic literature has been studied previously -e.g. Peter L. Hays and Robert Redfield, «Pynchon's Spanish Source for 'Entropy'», Studies in Short Fiction 16 (1979) 327-334. I am currently working on a book-length study of Pynchon's «Hispanic Connection», an interest of mine reflected in my article «Fateful Labyrinths: La vida es sueño and The Crying of Lot 49» (The Comparatist 7 [1983]: 57-74). (N. from the A.)
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Vladimir Nabokov uses the expression «spiritual irrigation» to refer to the tremendous influence of Don Quixote upon later writers (Lectures on Don Quixote [San Diego-New York-London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1983] 8). (N. from the A.)
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. Martín de Riquer (Barcelona: Editorial Juventud, 1966) I, 1, 36. (N. from the A.)
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Carroll B. Johnson, Madness and Lust: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Don Quijote (Berkeley-Los Angeles-Toronto: U of California P, 1983) 196. (N. from the A.)
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Guy Davenport, Foreward, Lectures on Don Quixote by Vladimir Nabokov, xviii. (N. from the A.)
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T. S. Eliot, Poems: 1909-1925 (London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1937) 103. (N. from the A.)
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The remote possibility exists that the encounter with Nerissa is the result of Flange's having been knocked unconscious by one of the boobytraps which Bolingbroke had set up for the gypsies. Borges, in such Ficciones stories as «El Sur» and «El fin», suggests that part of the action comes from the fevered imagination of his characters. I have recently completed a study of the possible influence of «El fin» in particular upon the Martín Fierro episodes of Gravity's Rainbow. (N. from the A.)