Meshugginah posts, and other things sundry

[Jules Siegel]

At 02:10 PM 07/6/97 -0400, Tom Stanton <tstanton at nationalgeographic.com> wrote:

>I never said he left himself out of the books. What he did do, and very
>deliberately, was take his personal life out of the public view so that, to
>paraphrase Norbert Weiner (sp?) "the text is all their is." Why he did it,
>how much of him is in the books, etc. is all speculation. No one knows,
>& I believe that was the whole point. You can't correlate what he was
>doing at home with what he wrote. You only have the book.

Chrissie and I can for parts of V. and Gravity's Rainbow. I don't see much
of myself in his work, except by inference, but I read intimate details that
Chrissie told me when we were still married. I also see things that she
apparently told both of us. I am talking about exact quotations, exact actions.


--Jules Siegel Apdo 1764 Cancun QR 77501
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