Bill Gray & Pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Richard Romeo wrote:

> Been reading a couple of essays regarding Bill Gray and Mao II in the 
> DeLillo-only recent issue of Modern American Fiction.  Couple of things come 
> to mind--in at least one essay, it is claimed that Bill Gray is a prisoner 
> of other's interpretations of him and his work, because he refuses to "set 
> the record straight" or give his view of events in his life or into the 
> idiosyncracies of his work.
> I wonder with all these tidbits of information regarding Pynchon's life, 
> notably the purported Farina biography, the Wanda debates, etc., does he 
> feel hemmed in, like Bill Gray,  by his own stands on these issues, namely 
> his own silence. I guess he feels once he opens his mouth, the cat, so to 
> speak, is out of that bag.

You don't think he'd go out and do something foolish, do you? :-)


				P.