another sighting of rumo[u]r of new Pynchon book...

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, I always end up reading all this stuff in
reverse chronological order, ao I've no idea exactly
what y'all are bickering about now, but, again, and,
if nothing else, it's pointless--not to mention
"flamebait"--to slight an entire nation simply because
one of its writers has a foreign-owned publisher and a
foreign confidant whose comments happen to filter down
to his countrymen (sic), rather than to his authors',
first.  So here's the earliest mention of specifics
about the (putative) forthcoming novel that I could
find in the List archives ...

To: Doug Millison <millison@[omitted]>
From: Thomas Eckhardt <uzs7lz@[omitted]>
Subject: Re: Naumann on TRP
Cc: pynchon-l@[omitted]
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:39:57 -0600

>Just wishful thinking, I guess, but did Naumann say
>anything at all about Pynchon's current projects?
>Anything about the next book?

No wishful thinking: Michael Naumann said that Pynchon
had told him that a new novel was in the works. In its
center (if that is the term to use here) is supposed
to stand a young female Russian mathematician, who at
the
beginning of the century belonged to the circle around
David Hilbert, the famous mathematician then teaching
in Goettingen. She then falls in love with a
colleague...

Regards,
Thomas

P.S. I thought that Michael Naumann said some mighty
stupid things about Pynchon's books.

P.P.S. Sorry, at the moment I do not have the time to
elaborate, and I did not manage to obtain a complete
recording. But I'm sure Kai will be able to tell us
more about the discussion.

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0003&msg=45243

Thomas Eckhardt, whither wentest thou?  Okay then ...

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