pynchon-l-digest V2 #4159

[Ghetta Life]

Hey Scoop,

That's a lot of fire in response to a simple post (and a polite one to boot) 
saying a cartoon spoofing Pynchon's famed reclusiveness is not likely a sign 
that the "New Yorker Community" (Does such a thing exist? how does one join? 
I'm sure you're an insider there.) must be hearing rumours of Pynchon's next 
novel's imminence.  Of course you spin this fable to boost your importance, 
since you broke the "fall 2005" rumour.  Sorry to disagree with your claim 
to fame.  Talk about needing a life!  Jeeze.

Carry on, Scoop

Ghetta

BTW, you can continue to claim I didn't submit a top ten novel list  (not 
that such a thing is important - Jeeze), but I did.  Ask the list compiler.  
Or just continue to lie.  Whatever.

>From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
>
>pynchonoid:
> >Last year I passed along information to the p-list about Pynchon's  new 
>novel coming out in fall 2005, sourced here in the U.S.  It remains to be 
>seen if this turns out to be true.
>
>NeedaLife:
> >>This is quite a leap of logic.  The content of Pynchon's next novel has 
>been rumoured for many years.
>
>Go back and re-read the bit of my post that you quoted, numbnuts.  The 
>information I shared with the p-list last year concerns the date of 
>publication of Pynchon's next novel, not its content. (The post you snipped 
>it from does not address the content either, only the rumored date of 
>publication.)
>
>pynchonoid:
> >Last time I checked, the New Yorker is an American publication.  It 
>recently published a cartoon about  a new Thomas Pynchon novel. It seems 
>logical to assume that the cartoon was motivated by news or rumors 
>circulating in the New York publishing community.
>
>NeedaLife:
> >>Characterizations of him as a recluse have been around since his first 
>novels.
>
>Source for that?  Sure the "recluse" word didn't get attached to Pynchon in 
>the '70s?  (I'm not 100 percent sure of this, but I'll bet my next paycheck 
>that you don't have anything like a clue.)
>
>NeedaLife:
> >>In fact his reclusiveness has become a cultural cliche, as evidenced by 
>his "apperance" on the Simpsons.  This was the same cliche spoofed in the 
>New Yorker cartoon.  Nothing new as far as I can see,
>
>Given your proven inability to read your own posts (and I'm still chuckling 
>over the fact that you couldn't list 10 novels that you had read

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