Pynchon as horndog

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

If my thought are anywhere near worthwhile, the period does seem 
extremely vital to Pychon's work.  He's not really known to condemn the 
reader in his satire, leaving himself out of the equation.  As a male 
author wirting on the destruction of teh poetic faculty that is 
associated with the Goddess, he attempts of confine an ongoing 
destruction that cannot ultimately destroy Her.  Yet, with his pen, he is 
up for the challenge, like many before him and, i'm sure, like many to come.

Bonnie Lenore Surfus

On Tue, 8 Nov 1994 Orlowsky at aol.com wrote:

> A friend sent me this story the other day.  It seems totally implausible --
> hard to believe Pynchon would cash in on his celebrity to pick up a woman off
> the street.  On the other hand, whoever said hormones were rational?
> 
> "So last night we had a dinner party and among the guests was one Mike the
> Psychiatrist, an all-around great guy and husband of my friend Katherine.
> We're babbling about internet crap, and I mention the Pynchon search and he
> tells me this story:
> 
> My old girlfriend Meg met Pynchon. She was going to meet someone and was
> dragging a suitcase, either down the street or into a bar, and Pynchon came
> up to her and insisted on buying her a drink. She'd heard of him, but didn't
> believe it was him, for some reason she agreed to the drink anyway. They had
> a drink or two, and something happened at some point in the conversation
> where she realized it was him. She didn't know he had a rep for being so
> elusive, so she asked him a lot about himself, etc. He mainly talked about
> his work. The only quote Mike remembers (this was YEARS ago, when they were
> at Columbia) was that Pynchon said to Meg: "It's V  period. Not V! Damnit! V
> PERIOD! "-railing, not at her, but at stupid reviewers and readers, I guess. 
> Not much of a tale, but quite a bit of info for one dinner party. 
> It's V, damnit,period."
> 
> Guess if you're going to be a recluse, you have to reconcile yourself to the
> possibility that losers will claim to be you in order to get laid.
> 
> Bob
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