Pynchon's legions of loopy fans

[Carvill John]

'The high literary priest for an age of paranoia'

http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article1219699.ece

"As far as we know, the novelist never planned to pursue a life as full of 
enigma, speculation and paradox as the labyrinthine plots of his fiction. 
Yet he seems to have grown into his role as leading player in an endlessly 
recursive game of hide-and-seek, bluff and feint that - as much as his 
writing - now stands as a paradigm for the suspicions and secrecies of 
modern life."

Also mentions "the ironic disclaimer that "No reference to the present day 
is intended or should be inferred.""