MDMD[6]: Fatherhood & The Absent Author

[Doug Millison]

As you rightly point out, "coming of age" carries an important subjective
dimension, too, especially if it's to mean coming of age as a writer.
Thanks,
Doug

At 6:45 PM 6/13/97, SHUBHA GHOSH wrote:
>I use "come of age" in terms of spiritual or epistemic age rather than
>chronological.   Judging from the Intro to Slow Learner,  P. didn't feel
>he had really come into hiw own until after V when he started going on the
>road (metaphorically as well as literally perhaps) although cl49 seemed to
>indicate to him that he had forgot everything he had learned.
>
>On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Doug Millison wrote:
>
>> Pynchon just turned 60, didn't he?.  That means he "came of age" (however
>> you want to define that, went through adolescence, came of legal age,
>> turned 21, etc.) in the 1950s.
>>
>> Cordially,
>> Doug
>>
>> At 11:30 AM 6/13/97, SHUBHA GHOSH wrote:
>> >Pynchon is probably like a lot of people I know who came of age in the
>> >Sixties
>>
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>>      Today in history (13 June 97 wire service report):
>> 1633: The charter for Maryland was given to Lord Cecil Baltimore.
>> 1944: Nazi Germany began flying-bomb attacks on Britain.
>>      From today's wire service reports:
>>      --Star Trek fans are like drug addicts who suffer withdrawal symptoms
>> if deprived of their favorite television show, a British study has shown.
>> One woman "Trekkie" spent her whole holiday worrying that her video
>> recorder had not been set properly at home to catch the latest installment.
>> Another spent $10,000 on Star Trek merchandise every year. After studying
>> fans of the science fiction cult show for four years, psychologist Sandy
>> Wolfson said, "My research found that about five to 10 percent of fans met
>> the psychological criteria of addiction."
>>      --Believing the modern world is spinning dangerously out of balance,
>> native Indian leaders from around the Western Hemisphere are preparing to
>> break 500 years of virtual silence in a bid to rescue Mother Earth. A
>> rainbow confederation of more than 400 elders and shamen will hold council
>> in a traditional ceremonial long-house or "maloca" in a remote village deep
>> in the Colombian Amazon region for 10 days starting June 19. "Life is out
>> of balance because man became disconnected from the basic essence of the
>> cosmos," event organizer Francisco Quiroga said.
>>
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D O U G  M I L L I S O N<<<<<>>>>>millison at online-journalist.com
     Today in history (13 June 97 wire service report):
1633: The charter for Maryland was given to Lord Cecil Baltimore.
1944: Nazi Germany began flying-bomb attacks on Britain.
     From today's wire service reports:
     --Star Trek fans are like drug addicts who suffer withdrawal symptoms
if deprived of their favorite television show, a British study has shown.
One woman "Trekkie" spent her whole holiday worrying that her video
recorder had not been set properly at home to catch the latest installment.
Another spent $10,000 on Star Trek merchandise every year. After studying
fans of the science fiction cult show for four years, psychologist Sandy
Wolfson said, "My research found that about five to 10 percent of fans met
the psychological criteria of addiction."
     --Believing the modern world is spinning dangerously out of balance,
native Indian leaders from around the Western Hemisphere are preparing to
break 500 years of virtual silence in a bid to rescue Mother Earth. A
rainbow confederation of more than 400 elders and shamen will hold council
in a traditional ceremonial long-house or "maloca" in a remote village deep
in the Colombian Amazon region for 10 days starting June 19. "Life is out
of balance because man became disconnected from the basic essence of the
cosmos," event organizer Francisco Quiroga said.