reclusive pynchon

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< The definition "A person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion 
and often in solitude." doesn't really befit a person who lives in NYC & has 
a wife & child. Just because he's publicly reclusive (i.e. no interviews, no 
book tours, no 42nd St. Y, no cameras) doesn't necessarily mean he's privately 
reclusive. >>

I think this is right.  Protecting one's privacy isn't necessarily 
reclusiveness.

That said, his desire for privacy is beginning to resemble Woody Allen's, 
certainly the most public private person on the face of the earth.  And it's 
gotten pretty old.  P's as famous for shunning fame as he is famously unread.

I would respect P more at this stage if he would more often seize the public 
podium that is his for the asking, rather than make allusive statements in 
book forewards or talk to Japanese Playboy if, in fact, he actually did.