neither paranoid nor dispossessed

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

"I have problems with Pynchon as either personallly paranoid or personally feeling dispossessed. The paranoid stance would mean he is actually batty enough to believe his life to be in danger for what he writes"

No, I am not in the paranoids camp......



" and the disinherited position meaning he feels he's been deprived of some god given right to be among the movers and shakers of America. Both are more insults to our man than anything else.

I may just not be getting it. Haven't had time to read much p-list lately."

Reasonable objection... I would suggest however, that Pynchon, during hours, perhaps, days, of discomfort induced by his aching, ugly teeth, MIGHT have reflected on the difference a healthy Pynchon & Co. might have made in his life.....We don't need to apply it as a personal pathology to appreciate that it might also, to some degree, inform his interest in the concept of disinheritance....and there is that further issue of him having to crank out COL 49 for the money.......


love,
cfa


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