on pynchon's blurbs

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I can't help but think that Mr. Pynchon snickers at us when we read his
blurbs. I think he writes from a blurb persona. And I'll be he gets a big
kick out of it. These blurbs make him sound like "everybody else," when we
know, and certainly he knows, he's not. The true pynchon probably is the kind
of writer who believes blurbs are the stuff of advertising puffery, they
can't possibly begin to hint at what's in the writing itself. I haven't
looked at  my copies of his stuff in writing this note, but I can't help but
think he would have to chuckle, if not outright laugh, at what some popular
novelist would have to say in a blurb about any of his novels. What 25 words
or less could begin to suggest what lies in the heart of GR. Or even Slow
Learner. I think he thinks blurbs are a joke. And he loves telling them.