re Re: Pynchon as "recluse"

Malignd malignd at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 28 13:40:40 CDT 2004


<<Would you have him start on Oprah, or somewhere
else?>>

You're so fucking transparent.  There's nothing in
what I'm saying that suggests he should go on daytime
televison.

<<And I'm still unclear about how you defend the
assertion that eschewing celebrity ...>>

Nor have I been talking about celebrity, other than
that his actions have created for himself.

<< ...offering oneself up as talk show fodder on US
TV. Like most people, he's managed to avoid that
indignity.>>

More of the same.

The Telegraph said of Roth:

“His comments risk the fierce opprobrium that has
greeted other American intellectuals - among them
Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag - who have
dared to question the patriotism that still dominates
America's public rhetoric.  But with his reputation in
recent years cemented by a sequence of intensely
political novels - including The Human Stain, I
Married A Communist and American Pastoral - his is a
powerful voice of dissent.”

Meanwhile Pynchon stays home, stays mute, and avoids
the subway.




	


	
		
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