"Pynchon a loon?"

[Malignd]

<<Family, friends, walks in the park, Upper West Side,
jazz, movies -- yeah, Pynchon sounds like a real
nutcase...>>

The entire article has no news value other than that
(in the form of a birthday valentine) it weakly
pretends to refute Pynchon's reputation as an
eccentric, citing a single source, one Richard Lane
(described as an "enthusiast" and a film editor; there
is no indication he knows Pynchon), who offers banal
pabulum conspicuous for its lack of detail and deadly
in its maudlin tedium.

The real point of the article, and what got it
published is (a) its winking offer for a reader to
look between the lines and consider that it would
never have been written were TP not so famously
strange; (the article might have been titled
"Reclusive Author Not So Weird, Claims Someone Who May
Not Know Him"), and (b) the retelling of the funnier
stuff--his jumping out of windows and hiding in the
Mexican hills or running down the street away from a
reporter in New York.  




	
		
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