MDMD(3)---Our Lurkers, Wicks & Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

At 2:26 AM 7/17/97, Eric Alan Weinstein wrote:
>In Lineland,  Jules has Chrisse
>describe/transcribe this as Pynchon  "spying on people a lot
>of the time."

I enjoyed this post on the "lurking" theme, and will add only that the
Jules/Chrissie remark about Pynchon "spying on people a lot of the time"
would also serve as a fairly generic description of just about any writer
who writes about people; I know more than one writer who watches people and
writes down (or remembers and writes down later) what they do and say, in
order to capture material that may be of use later. Observation ("spying"
puts a different, negative connotation on it --  not surprising when Jules
talks about Pynchon, of course) aids description, after all.

Cordially,
Doug




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