Pynchon's Foreword

[Paul Nightingale]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of jbor
> Sent: 04 June 2003 22:43
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Pynchon's Foreword
> 
> on 5/6/03 5:56 AM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> > it's
> > slick marketing on pynchon's part (or whoever it is that markets
him)
> > and I can't help but think that there is something ironic in all
this.
> > THEY insisted he write some conventional Foreword and he insisted on
> > being a poet.
> 
> I imagine there's a credit for cover design on the back of the book.
It
> was
> a bit silly to try and interpret the book cover in concert with
Pynchon's
> Foreword in the first place. Chances are, the two were composed
completely
> independently of one another.
> 
And therefore cannot be read in conjunction. I never suggested P
"composed" the cover, but you had to be there at the time.