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

[Vaska]

Jules comments:
>At 07:09 AM 07/23/97 PDT, "Thomas Vieth" <whoge at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>I mean, a  writer has to spy on people in order to paint them correctly,
>not so?
>
>Spying is an attitude, I think, not the mere act of observation. Chrissie
>originally brought this up in October. I think she used the word spying
>because she perceived an element of deceptiveness in Pynchon's relations
>with others, as in her comments about the "stupid surfer guy."

Perhaps this attittude is not so uncommon among writeres: Judith Thompson, a
fine Canadian playwright, often thinks of herself as a "scavanger" or even a
"buzzard" circling other people's lives [her words], picking up what turns
into material for a play.  I know her very slightly, but she seems a
perfectly decent human being for/because of all the little twinges of guilt
she obviously feels about her habit of "spying."

Vaska