The Glory Days
jbor at bigpond.com
jbor at bigpond.com
Sat Jun 25 18:22:33 CDT 2005
And, speaking of Pynchon apocrypha, it has always seemed odd that Jules
Siegel provoked so much hostility, even, apparently, in the
pre-"Lineland" era. From what little I've seen in the archives, Jules,
a friend of the author, was often coherent and polite. Why is it that
his personal remembrances of Pynchon weren't palatable, where kooky
Bugs Bunny teeth are (answers itself really), and hoaxes like the Japan
Playboy "interview" or the Unabomber rumour are likewise just fine and
dandy, and woebetide anyone who dares question them? For a long time
any time Jules's name was mentioned here there would be a sudden
scourge of trollthrops and periphery-dwellers closing down the
discussion. ... Moreso than usual, anyway.
I've never seen or read _Lineland_, by the way. Just making
conversation.
best
p.s. I'm going to put my money on the table and state the obvious: the
current "mittelwerk" and "terrance" are fake.
On 25/06/2005, at 6:53 AM, jbor wrote:
> Yes. He ran a couple of the major group reads, and he ran them well.
> In between times he was a pretty dab hand at sorting the wheat from
> the chaff.
>
> best
>
> On 25/06/2005, at 1:42 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:
>
>> Well, A. Dinn didn't "run" the list, but he did "lead" it by the
>> example of his manners and scholarship.
>>
>> Ghetta
>
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