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[Jules Siegel]

At 05:50 PM 05/7/97 PST, <MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu> wrote:
>Would (as someone has noted) a certain book about to be published exist if
this were not true?

Why not? Lineland isn't about Pynchon or Pynchon's privacy. It's about my
interaction with pynchon-l, about my coming back out of my own self-imposed
obscurity and into the light of the Internet.

If he weren't reclusive, I might have had more to say, too. Did it occcur to
anyone that maybe Chrissie didn't tell more than a smattering of what she
knew? Perhaps there would have been better questions about his work. Unlike
me, Chrissie has read every book. She knows his stuff cold. The few
observations she got to make about his method were quite cogent, to the say
the least.

Let's not start the argument again. Suffice it to say the criticsm can go
both ways. Those who were here for the encounter will remember that it was
her irritation about the sterility of the questions that actually seems to
have set off the most intensely hostile reactions.

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