VLVL2 [loons]

[barbara100 at jps.net]

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From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>

>And some wanted time to
get over the experience of reading the foreword to 1984. That had been a
complete downer for me. Was it possible P is a bit of a loon?>

And what have you deciced? Is Pynchon a bit of a loon? And is that a reason
to dismiss his insight? I'm inclined to think it's what makes him great:


http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2003/06/06/1054700380351.htm
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The list of creative neurotics - which includes Franz Kafka, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Paul
Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh and Jackson Pollock - is a long one.
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A whopping 90 percent of the writers, followed by 75 percent of the visual
artists, had suffered from mental disturbances, with the most common
affliction being depression, followed by anxiety and obsessive behaviour.
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