Pynchon-Tinasky

[Dave Monroe]

Point being, the investment everybody seems to have
here, elsewhere in the Tinasky question is not a
matter of simple attribution, but, rather, what
attributing those letters to Pynchon might mean in
reading his other texts.  

Your recent arguments on the matter, for example,
concern what Pynchon presumably would never have
committed to writing rather than, say, any
consideration of known facts and/or close textual
investigation. 

One might defer to Foster here, but, well, as Eric
asks, just what is his investment in the case?  And
his work on the Tinasky letters is sloppy indeed, not
nearly so exacting as, say, his research on the
Shakespeare attribution, or on the authorship of
Primary Colors. 

Again, note that no one here is concerned about Thomas
Hawkins' good name regarding that Alice Walker
comment.    Uxoricide aside ... 

But, again, I'm not partcularly concerned either way. 
I'm more interested in the discussion itself, which
has its productive byproducts.  Note, for example,
that Charles Hollander's early essay on the subject
does contain a rare cataloguing of Pynchon's stylistic
idiosyncracies.  Does make one work on what
specifically makes those Pynchonian texts Pynchonian,
no?  

At any rate, the case is hardly definitively closed,
but I don't feel any particular need to discuss it any
further, either, so ... but, hey, it is a good
exercise.  Agenda?  I just wanted to reread--or, in
some cases, read for the first time--the various
texts, do a little annotating, is all.  

But I am interested in what the stakes are for some in
re: those letters ...


--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> ----------
> >From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
> >
> 
> > Actually, it seems to me that the real concern is
> over
> > what the implications of Pynchon having written
> the
> > Tinasky letters might be.
> 
> Say what? The whole reason that the letters got
> published and that all those
> experts like Steve Moore and John Krafft were
> contacted was to decide
> whether or not "Tinasky" was Pynchon. That's what
> the discussion here was
> about when Eric brought it up ... But I have no idea
> what your agenda is.
> 
> Case closed.


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