Fw: Groupbath of groupthink: VN & Pyncheon

[Phil Wise]

Now this sounds a little familiar.  There's an "article" that was published
in Pynchon Notes called "The Lightbulb Fake" which if my memory serves tells
a very similar story.  I'm sorry I can't give you a tighter reference for
this, I read the article with a sense of mystifcation a few years ago and
then dismissed it out of hand.  Still don't believe it - I tend to agree
with the comments below.

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: <MalignD at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Groupbath of groupthink: VN & Pyncheon


> Reposted here from the Nabokov list:
>
> In a message dated 7/23/1 6:37:05 PM, you wrote:
>
> <<EDITOR's NOTE.  Susan Elizabeth Sweeney has done a paper on the
VN-Pynchon
>
> connection. I'm not sure it's out yet, but check the ZEMBLA bibliography.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Kris Majer" <stonk at friko3.onet.pl
>
> I often wonder what would  happen if the geniuses of world literature
> submerged themselves in the groupbath of groupthink.
>
>
> I remember reading / hearing somewhere once that Pynchon was not a writer,
>
> but a group of writers. Not much proof for that, but the thesis hasn't
>
> been disproved either. By the way, any information on the Nabokov -
Pynchon
> nexus? So far I have found out that P was N's student and that Vera
> remembered him for randomly alternating between lowercas and uppercase
> letters. We also have the cryptic texts. But anything else? Regards,
>
>
> Kris>>
>
>
> I post this, don't endorse it.  It is daft, is it not, to think, facing a
> formidable body of work, (as some do regarding, e.g., Shakespeare and,
above,
> Pynchon) that a group of writers is a more likely source than singular
talent
> or genius.
>
> Brilliance by committee seems highly unlikely to me.  Additionally,
speaking
> of brilliance, talent, genius--
>
> saw, over the weekend, "A Kind of Alaska," "One for the Road," and "The
> Homecoming" at the Pinter festival in NYC.  Pinter himself on stage in
"One
> for the Road."
>
> Sublime.  And no doubt, agree or disagree, how Harold would feel about
Genoa
> ...
>
>
>
>