paranoid thinking

[Doug Millison]

How many others had the same teachers, read the same books, heard the same
debates, listened to the same music, etc -- quite a few in his generation.
Pynchon is an artist who was able to assimilate it all, focus, then
synthesize and communicate his truth through his art, beginning at, as you
say, while still "amazingly young".

I wish I knew more about his actual writing and work style -- does it come
out full-blown and elegant, or does he fuss over endless iterations of
rewriting, corrections, editing?

Cordially,
Doug

At 12:19 PM 7/3/97, JULIUS RAPER wrote:
>Yes, amazingly young.  Was it the good teachers--or the intensity of his
>reading?  Or a keen ear that picked up all it heard?  Such ideas were
>blowing in the wind, but how many knew what they implied?  JRR


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