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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