A Trove of New Works by Thomas Pynchon?

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 12:23, Ghetta Life wrote:
> I guess these "writings" by Pynchon may be of interest to SOME, but IMHO 
> they and the "Togetherness" stuff Dave posted earlier are only for those 
> with too much time on their hands and too much hero worship of TRP.  And the 
> activity on this list of late attests to their appeal...
> 
> For my part, I've just started "The Recognitions"  and having just gotten in 
> the rhythm of the writing, I'm thouroughly enjoying it.  Too bad the 
> activity on the Gaddis-list is almost nil.
> 

Fine old fashioned kind of novel, whose talk is densely sprinked with
old Europe culture. Such wasn't seen as particularly "affected" back
then. 

On the g-list they tend to act like ladies and gentlemen and avoid
calling fellow listers boring or jackasses even when they are. Thus,
there's nothing to talk about sometimes.

My theory for why the g-list is so sedate (and completely quiet now and
then) is that it has at least one and maybe more than one member who is
knowledgable, secure in that knowledge, and helpful toward lesser
beings. Nobody wants to act the fool in the company of people like that.
People it is possible to respect.

Don't know why the p-list has never been able to achieve this blessed
state. I've been here for ten years. Not all of us are stupid. But
nothing raises us off the ground.