New Pynchon Novel Title to be Revealed Within the Next Week

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 18/07/2006:

> I don't know why Rob thinks it "obviously" wasn't written by Pynchon.  
> It sounded just like so many of his essays.  The description itself 
> makes me a little nervous about what kind of book he's going to 
> deliver.  It seems like it's going to ba an over-the-top scatter shot 
> novel including even the kitchen sink.
>
> Ghetta

Context more than its content made me think right off the bat that it 
was something not written by Pynchon. It appeared in the way hoax-stuff 
usually does appear here. There was the simultaneous Return of the 
Whore of Babylon. Then it disappeared from the Amazon page. Then it got 
copied into an Amazon reader discussion-page. Etc.

I guess we'll see, and I could be wrong and you and Paul could be 
right. No big deal. It does sound similar to the inside cover flap 
description of M&D, though that obviously wasn't written by Pynchon 
either. And the M&D one knows who the central characters are, which 
this one doesn't seem to.

All in all, if it is the flap blurb for the new book, it's actually 
much weaker than the M&D one imho. I agree with Mal about the utter 
triteness of that bit about "sometimes it's their lives that pursue 
them".

But I'm happy to wait for the book rather than try to second-guess its 
author.

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