VLVL2 [loons]

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 14:37, barbara100 at jps.net wrote:
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> From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
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> >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?>
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> 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:

Seems possible. 

P.
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> 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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