A midnight visit with the werewolf

[Jules Siegel]

Tom Stanton wrote:
> 
> Jules writes:
> [huge snip of mascaro flame]
> 
> > It doesn't reduce to anything like that at all. What bugs you is my
> > magisterial tone and my disrespectful manner of talking about your hero
> > as if he were merely another guy, a great artist, but just another guy.
> > This goes for some others, too. When I told Anita about the guilt
> > trippers, she said, "They're afraid Pynchon might be reading all this
> > and they don't want to get in trouble." Tom -- are you there, Tom? Did
> > you get the names of the traitors who admitted to enjoying all this?
> 
> Shucks, Jules, what's he going to do? Not write to us? Deny us a
> personal interview?

Set the Werewolf on you, probably. We're in cahoots on this thing.

> Since I'm one of the "others," I'll chime in. First, I admit he had a
> heroic effect on my life. I loved the book when I first read it (22)
> & still love it. Call me corny but for a naive Midwestern hippie GR was
> a real eye opener on the world. Part of the fun was/is the mysterious
> air surrounding the author. You had the personal contact, so you really
> can't appreciate the fun of finding little snippets of info about him.
> Thus my original comment.

Sure I can. That's one of the main reasons I'm doing this -- for the
pleasure of seeing you guys have so much fun.
> 
> So when's Chrissie coming back?

See today's mail.

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