Pynchon as "recluse"

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<<Why not just let Pynchon be Pynchon?>

One can't let Pynchon be Pynchon if one doesn't know
what that is.  There are stories--his going about in
disguise, jumping out windows to avoid
journalists--that make it as likely that he is
eccentric and reclusive as it is that he's the quite
normal albeit private person you prefer to imagine. 
The very fact of his extreme desire for privacy seems
itself eccentric and is probably it's own cause:  a
guy who writes five novels in forty years wouldn't
likely have remained of much interest to a curious
public otherwise. 

Or maybe not so much eccentric as calculated. 
Privacy's an old ploy, as least as old as Garbo.  In
either case, he's probably become as well-known for
his unwillingness to become well-known as he is for
his writing.  



 


	
		
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