MDMD(1): dedication

[Sherwood, Harrison]

>From: 	millison at online-journalist.com

>Re: MDMD(1): dedication
>Pynchon's dedication of the book includes his son, perhaps a real world
>motivation for casting the novel in the form of a story told to children.
>Writing a book that he knows his child is going to read may also have had
>an impact on how and what he wrote, compared to previous fiction that he
>created before becoming a father.
>
This reminds me of a question I'd been meaning to ask: Does anyone know
the age of young Jackson Pynchon? 

I'm the father of two replicants, aged 4 and 5, myself. Now if you'd
told me beforehand I was going to undergo some radical personal and
spiritual changes as a result of fatherhood, I'd've waved carelessly and
said, Yeah, yeah, go tell it to the Marines, and gone back to my gin and
methedrine cocktail. Boy, as they say, Did I Have Another Think Coming.

Furthermore, compared to GR, M&D is, to _my_ way of seeing, just
slathered with evidence of exactly the same sort of changes I'm
undergoing. The Kinder, Gentler Pynchon, if I may be permitted a trope.
I'm sure quite a lot of this is just good old-fashioned projection, but
I'm still convinced that there is something there.

I know this has started to come up a few times in the last couple of
weeks only to die the death; does anyone now have any further thoughts
on this?

Harrison