Three recent Pynchon pieces online

[David Morris]

I think it's further proof that he really is a Luddite.  It tracks
with his repeated expressions of fear of the "digital age."

For instance in the 1984 intro:
"the Internet, a development that promises social control on a scale
those quaint old 20th-century tyrants with their goofy moustaches
could only dream about."

And the Stone Junction intro:
"One popular method of resistance was always just to keep moving --
seeking, not a place to hide out, secure and fixed, but a state of
dynamic ambiguity about where one might be any given moment, along the
lines of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Modern digital machines,
however, managed quickly enough to focus the blurred ellipsoid of
human freedom even more narrowly than Planck's Constant allows."

So I'd say Pynchon really is an honest-to-God Luddite paranoid.

David Morris

On 12/6/06, MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com> wrote:
> << It looks like Pynchon letter was written on a typewriter, which suggest that TP might not use a computer WP to do his writing, at least not his  correspondence (?). >>
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> Assumiong he didn't use a typewriter for the effect ...
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