The hacker we call Bob

[Paul Mackin]

On Aug 26, 2006, at 9:37 PM, MalignD at aol.com wrote:

> << Pynchon, after all, be immune to the "kiss-and-tell" syndrome that
> afflicts celebrities in general, whether they are the ones doing  
> the kissing or
> telling or both. The fact that we haven't seen this sort of thing  
> suggests, to me
> at least, that Pynchon may have spent his time writing and reading  
> instead of
> hanging out with the kinds of celebrities whose memoirs are of  
> interest to the
> Boomer crowd.  >>
>
> There may be no celebrity kiss and tell around Pynchon because, to  
> put it
> charitibly, he's not very good looking.

It would be my probably not very acute  observation that, while high  
culture often pays attention to, and goes gaga over, mass or pop  
culture, the cases of the the reverse being true, through not  
unknown, are the exception.