Three recent Pynchon pieces online

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Thu Dec 7 09:20:05 CST 2006


On 12/7/06, Laura Joldersma <laurajoldersma at gmail.com> wrote:
> But on the other hand, from the letter:
>
> "Unless we were actually there, we must turn to people who were, or to letters, contemporary reporting, the Internet until, with luck, we can begin to make a few things of our own up."
>
> I read that as Pynchon himself using the Internet for research.


I guess so, but he was pretty adamant about the evil internet in the 1984 intro.

" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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