daddaist (auto)biography of TRP

[Andrew Dinn]

Juan Cires Martinez writes:

> Now on a more serious level, I was reading the other day the Playboy
> article, and it seemed to (the paranoid) me just a little bit too cute.
> >From Shirley Temple impersonations to the lascivious mentions of a cute
> preteen, it all fits in too nicely.  Wouldn't an autobiography leave us
> with just the same feeling?  (but of course, I am underestimating old
> Tom.)

I have always thought the Playboy article had too many kute
korrespondences to be trusted. I too reread it in the last few days
and could hardly credit a single anecdote. Jules as Cleanth? hardly!
Shirley Temple? my ass! And the most ridiculous line is the one about
TRP being scared of what they [they?] will do on the basis of what he
has already written. C'mon, this is the man who wrote `Gravity's
Rainbow'! He knows exactly what `they' are capable of.

And let's face it how likely is the whole premise. Not one of TRP's
Cornell acquaintances will reveal anything then suddenly out of the
blue along comes Jules with *the* perfect motive for spilling the
beans - `the bastard screwed my wife'. And all that terrible posturing
about the hurt, the pain and good old Tom, the deceitful bastard and
sensitive lover. If I were good old Tom it's just the kind of claptrap
I'd offer Playboy - see how stupid they really were. No, I think
Pynchon (with a little help from Mr Siegel) has already made up the
only autobiography we are going to get.


Andrew Dinn
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