<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I do not believe he has or did do it either. </div><div>THAT said, here are reasons why he might: a guy who sent Prof Irwin Corey to accept his Nat Book Award prize LOVES a great joke. ...writers from JC Oates; Doris Lessing, Nobelist; Gore Vidal, J. C. Rowling, Romain Gary ( who once insulted Pynchon who got him back), twice Prix Goncourt winner ( when you can only win once unless you totally fake a new identity) , is so interesting in his pseudonyms ( including his " real name" Romain Gary) that a long essay --or a couple-three---Musta been written about it...the overwhelming reason these writers give is they feel " caged" [Lessing] , caught in preconceptions by the public [JCOates], buried in a false world of success [Gary], and/or as Ms. Oates has written " after a certain age, we might crave anonymity as much as we crave identity." </div><div>AND, I will add very dicily, which I bet gets no traction here ( which is fine, I feel in some anonymous realm of pure half-stupid speculation to carry that anonymous theme ) in Pynchon's case, his lifelong dissing of charisma--you know the quotes--and his becoming a kind of " cult" writer (however unwanted) and one who has a hard time being read innocently again...</div><div><br></div><div>Might just. <br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Sep 11, 2015, at 1:08 PM, jochen stremmel <<a href="mailto:jstremmel@gmail.com">jstremmel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>No offense, but all this talk about a P novel under pseudonym is ridiculous. <br><br></div>Why should he do that?<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-09-11 18:47 GMT+02:00 Erik T. Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eburns@gmail.com" target="_blank">eburns@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">[Theory] | The Fiction Atop the Fiction, by Art Winslow | Harper's Magazine<br>
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