P. and the New Yorker

[Murthy Yenamandra]

MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu writes, among other things:
> [...]
> I respond sincerely, I want nothing of him except what he wants to
> give.  I expect no miracles except the ones I find when I read him.  My
> beef isn't w/ Pynchon, it's with the way he's being boxed.

It doesn't really matter what he does - he's boxed anyway. Whether as a
Sci-fi or postmodern or whatever trendy-but-easily-put-downable category
of writer, or as a pop-culture celebrity - it doesn't really matter.
Anyway, if he can exploit pop culture for his work or amusement, I'm
sure he can expect pop culture to chew him up and spit it out without
getting much of a taste.

What I mean to say is that, I'm sure that when he chooses to do things
like the Lotion interview (which I haven't yet read, by the way), he has
to expect to be exploited in return. May be it would've been better if
the Lotion interview had been done by Wanda Tinasky. Myself, I'm
dreading the "Pynchon wears khakis" ad.

Murthy

-- 
Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. Email: yenamand at cs.umn.edu
   "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the
    swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the
    wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour  
    to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all ..."