Meshugginah posts, and other things sundry

[Jules Siegel]

At 12:33 PM 07/6/97 -0800, millison at online-journalist.com (Doug Millison) wrote:

>Jules also tells us that a lot of it happened within a
>marijuana haze that can subvert the best intentions of clear, error-free
>recollection.

This is bullshit.

>(2) I find it difficult to credit two people with the degree of influence
>that Jules seems to want to claim over a body of work as broad and as deep
>as Pynchon's.

We didn't claim to have influenced him very much. He used some brochures I
gave him as sources for some minor figures in V. Maybe something else I
don't remember. When I read Gravity's Rainbow, however, and I see a lot of
Chrissie and a lot of very intense feelings for the characters she seems to
have influenced most strongly.

Please try to comment on what I actually wrote and to what Chrissie actually
told me to put into Lineland. I didn't put any words in her mouth. She read
the entire manuscript before it was published. She made some comments to
Dale and Faera about a couple of items she didn't feel were fairly
paraphrased and I corrected them.


--Jules Siegel Apdo 1764 Cancun QR 77501
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