1968 Writers and Editors War Tax Protest

[Paul Mackin]

On Apr 19, 2006, at 10:27 AM, jd wrote:

> However a lot of people do seem to let it go at "recluse"...  maybe
> not serious fans.  Personally hearing stories about him jumping out a
> second story window and running away from, who was it, Norman Mailer?
> makes me enjoy his books all the more... because I already liked the
> books and it gives me the impression that the author is in  fact as
> cool as his books.  I get the feeling that if he stumbled across all
> this though, he'd feel pretty weird and not like it very much.
> Whereas someone like Gaddis stayed out of the spotlight to kind of
> make a point, Pynchon seems to have done it out of paranoid leanings,
> at least to start.  Though I might run from Mailer too.


My personal feeling about meeting (in person, as they say) famous and/or
  illustriious  persons is one of considerable disconfort.  This is  
partly because
  I  never have any idea what to say that won't sound on the one hand  
noismely
  deferential  or on the other hand lacking in  proper respect for  
the person's
accomplishments (when that is really what the encounter if about).

Also there is that feeling for what  a nuisance the whole encounter  
probably is
for them. Fans are something it's both hard to live with and hard to  
live
without.




>
> On 4/19/06, Carlos Ferrão <carlosferrao at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The more he hides, the more we want to know. I realise he doesn't  
>> do it for
>> self-promotion but if he was, for instance, living a well documented
>> "normal" life then people wouldn't care so much.
>