reclusive pynchon

[jbor]

>> 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.

But as well as protecting his personal privacy and apparently being camera
shy, he has also made a deliberate choice to shun publicity and journalists
throughout his career, which is a different thing, and which is the point
being made.

I find much to respect in the fact that he isn't in the papers every other
week like all those other "celebrity" authors and auteurs prattling on with
their opinions about things totally outside their sphere of expertise, or
peddling Oldsmobiles, for example.

best

> 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.