Yet More New (and, Incidentally, Delicious) Pynchon Verbiage!

[Tore Rye Andersen]

This letter is really a gem! Apart from the novels, this seems to be one of 
Pynchon's most important descriptions of his own poetics in a long time.That 
Ruskin quote should be required reading for any reader of Pynchon's 
historical fiction, and I suspect that an embroidered version of the quote 
may hang above Pynchon's own writing desk (and typewriter! I wonder whether 
AtD was typed on this machine...).
Hmmm - writers as chimpanzees: I guess Pynchon's fondness for bananas has 
finally been explained. I wonder whether he keeps his banana labels as close 
to hand as Hogan Slothrop...

>From: "David Kipen" <kipend at gmail.com>
>
>First "Against the Day," then the Jon Stewart panegyric, and now this --
>will Thomas Pynchon's shameless craving for attention never end?
>
>All finest,
>David

_________________________________________________________________
Få 250 MB gratis lagerplads på MSN Hotmail:  http://www.hotmail.com