No technophobe

[Paul Mackin]

Thanks to Jeffrey for the excerpt from the Luddite article.

Here I go again, but Pynchon's nonfiction writing has a disorienting 
effect on me. No, he's definitely not a technophobe. He's unnervingly 
mainstream up to an including a cautious belief (hope) in impowerment
of the people through the computer. I, of course, have that hope too. But
I would just as soon _he_ did not display _his_ normality so baldly (even 
allowing the possibility it maybe an act for the NY Times editor). It takes
away a little from the strangeness and ambiguity found in the novels. I 
would prefer my visionaries not quite so sane. 

What a rash sounding paragraph I've just typed! Going off
half-cocked again on the basis of a bit from a newspaper article.
Please forgive the hyperbole.

I do think I see why Tom has tried to keep his nonfictional
existence out of the public eye.

					P.