More on the blurb brouhaha

[The Great Quail]

jbor:

> Welcome back. Sorry to disagree with you, but they have managed to get
> a whole shitload of free publicity with this little stunt.

Thanks for the welcome! But we will have to respectfully agree to disagree.
Again, I don't wish to sound like a flatulent ass, but my friends at Penguin
contend it was just an error. Of course, being mere human beings, they are
not necessarily privy to the Inner Star Chamber, where the actual penguins
who really run the company plot their schemes of world domination....

Personally, the fact that Pynchon himself has *written* a blurb months in
advance of publication is the real news here, and worthy of buzz.

This blurb, along with his intro to 1984 and the two Simpsons appearances,
make me believe that Our Man is beginning to ponder his legacy...? I can't
imagine a chatty series of appearances on Oprah, but it wouldn't surprise me
if a magazine interview might be the next step. After all, he's getting on
in years, and this may be his last Big Book. (God forbid, and may he be
given a few more decades, as long as he doesn't start to embarrass himself
like St. Norman.)

--Quail