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

[David Casseres]

Indeed it is a gem, a-a-a-and, it's typed on a typewriter!

On 12/6/06, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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