New Pynchon Novel Title to be Revealed Within the Next Week

richard baillie richbaillie at fastmail.fm
Tue Jul 18 10:29:21 CDT 2006


the blurb is great but Pynchon didn't write it



On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:19:27 -0700 (PDT), "Dave Monroe"
<monropolitan at yahoo.com> said:
> For 992 pages?  But, against perhaps all previous
> indications, at least Pynchon's proven to have a
> ceratin sense of humor about himself, his work, his
> reputation.  Another layer, or, perhaps more usefully,
> another fold.  Me, though, I quite like that blurb.  
> I honestly can't see what all the consternation is
> about here ...
> 
> --- James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yes.  But at best it's self-parody (if written by
> > TRP).    What people are worried about (me anyway)
> > is the possibility that it indicates the
> > novel will be self-parody.  Which would be sad
> > 
> > 
> > On 7/18/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > It's a BLURB, fer chrissakes ...
> > >
> > 
> 
> 
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