Pynchon after death?

[severs at fas.harvard.edu]

Forgive the morbidity of the thought, and apologies if it's been discussed here
before, but: this thread makes me think of the quadrille paper Pynchon
supposedly wrote GR on (forget where I heard that story) and what it could
reveal about "fucked-upness" and so many other things in the book's
composition, and does anyone out there have any speculation as to whether the
Pynchon policy of complete secrecy and nothing-but-the-novels will continue
after his death, in the hands of an executor?  The question implicit here is
whether his reclusiveness (if we had to decide) seems to have more to do with
his right to privacy or with a broader notion (given all his work's jabs at
those lusting after the "Real Text") that prying into any stage of the art
object prior to the published version is superfluous or impure or reductive or
(fill in pejorative of choice).  Surely the man who brought us the seances of
GR, Pierce Inverarity's will, and all the after-life speculation in his fiction
has thought through these questions in the fullest of ways...

The other question: if the Pynchon Archive doesn't go to the Ransom Center or
the NYPL or wherever, will it still be preserved, and by whom?  And to what
purpose?

Here's wishing Tom many more years and many more books.

Jeff



Quoting pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>:

>
> Who knows what Pynchon meant, even if you generously
> assume JS is accurately reporting the meeting &
> conversation?  I don't trust JS when it comes to
> reporting about Pynchon.  His assertion, if true,  is
> of a piece with the general thrust of his evaluation
> of Pynchon:  a guy who can't get his own girlfriend
> and has to take somebody else's, a guy who can't
> create stories and has to rip off plot points and
> details from his friends, who can't write unless he's
> stoned or otherwise out of his mind, who's overrated,
> & etc.
>
>
> http://pynchonoid.org
> "everything connects"
>
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