"Dueling Recluses"

[Dave Monroe]

Okay ...

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:

> WDPS (What Did Pynchon Say?):
> 
> "My belief is that recluse is a code word generated
> by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk
> to reporters.' "
> --from Pynchon's 1997 telephone interview with CNN
> 
> Why perpetuate the myth of Pynchon as "recluse"?

Cf. ...

"Except maybe for Brainy Smurf, it's hard to imagine
anybody these days wanting to be called a literary
intellectual, though it doesn't sound so bad if you
broaden the labeling to, say, 'people who read and
think.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html

Sure, I'll harp on word choice as much as the next guy
(and there's veritable heavenly choir of such harpists
here, so ...), but I've yet to see why this is an
issue, EXCEPT perhaps as a recurring continuation of
bickering by, er, the same damn means.  As Keith sez,
"to get a rise out of," well, each other, apparently. 
As Keith also witticizes (no, seriously ...), "he
doesn't want to hang with anyone."  DeLillo, maybe,
but ... well, one says "reclusive," the other, I don't
know, "private" or somesuch, let's call the whole
thing off ...


		
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