JS; Pynchon's predelictions WAS re Kids

[jbor]

Siegel's March 1977 Playboy article is surprisingly well-written and one of
the only substantial pieces of first-hand biographical material on Pynchon
which is available. It is still in the p-list archives, apparently in
fearless defiance of the copyright laws

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9505&msg=279&sort=date
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9505&msg=280&sort=date

and was posted to the list back in 1995 even despite Steven Weisenburger's
strongly-expressed reservations at the time

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9505&msg=162&sort=date

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>From: "Dave Monroe" <monroe at mpm.edu>
>Subject: Re: JS; Pynchon's predelictions WAS re Kids
>Date: Wed, Jun 28, 2000, 7:53 AM
>

> I share your reticence to resort to bibliography, esp. in the case of
> Pynchon, about whom virtually all such "bibliography" seems apocryphal, at
> best.  On the other hand, in re: children in Pynchon, well, there are
> undeniably a few cases--Bianca. most notably--where adolescent (if even)
> girls are, indeed, sexualized.  Just as there is the shining counterexample
> of Vineland's Prairie.  My mistake, perhaps, was to take such instances
> Pynchon's texts as corroborating Siegel's (or his ex-wife's, perhaps)
> allegations (?).