personally paranoid

[Terrance]

Toby G Levy wrote:
> 
> The article was in that free New York weekly (Is it New York Observer?)'s
> web site at the time M&D was released.  I'd have to search my Pynchon
> stuff in my den to see if I printed it out.  Maybe you could find
> something in the archives.
> 
> It has always been my beleif that Pynchon's constant writing about
> Paranoia is based on some psychological problem he personally has.  I
> can't prove it, just something I feel in my bones.  Maybe someone as
> subjective as myself shouldn't post to the pynchon list!
> 
> Toby

Oh yeah, it's in the archives. I think the notion that great writers or
artists in general have to be a bit nuts or suffer some sort of mental
illness is a crock. 
Sure, we can make a long list, but you know, if we were to study
ordinary people as we do celebrities and authors,  digging through their
garbage, we could construct an interesting loon,  saint or a devil or
more likely both, of everyone. That is, if anyone gave a damn. If
Pynchon is a paranoid why does he live in NYC? Doesn't make any sense.
He's not a character in a DeLillo novel. A few weeks ago I saw Delillo
on TV. He was reading. I didn't like him or his reading or what he was
reading. Woody Allan was on reading too. Same reaction. I also watched
Woody's short film that he made for the concert at Madison Square Garden
recently, god what a jack ass that man is. Did he really think a bunch
of upscale Jews were gonna be in Madison Square Garden holding pictures
of Dead Irish Fireman and Dead Puerto Rican cops? What a schmuck! I
don't think I would like Pynchon as a person. I really don't give a
horses ass if he's crazy or not. I like Underworld better than M&D. So
what? Who cares?