pynchon-l-digest V2 #4378

[Mike Weaver]

>Not as amusing,
>imo, is JS's uncorroborated (they were alone in that
>pig-infested Manhattan Beach apartment together when
>he said it, JS claims) assertion that Pynchon told JS
>that he was so fucked up when he wrote GR he didn't
>know what he was doing (or words to that effect)


I seem to remember that the reference was to some passages of GR rather 
than GR in toto and he said he didn't know what he was getting at.
Assuming 'fucked up' refers to being excessively stoned, the assertion is 
not so unlikely.
There are passages of GR which do come on like TP was in that thoroughly 
ripped and rhapsodic state where multitudes of threads have a pattern which 
one desperately tries to describe - but the multiple layers of the pattern 
are so difficult to express in the linearity of speech or sentences that 
you end up tripping over your tongue.
If TP did say what Jules said he did he could have been being honest or 
self deprecatingly admitting he was winging it somewhat.