More on the blurb brouhaha

[richard baillie]

agree with you, wouldn't be at all surprised by an interview or a doc

"appearing" on the simpsons was a step in that direction, widening the
demographic

i read somewhere in i think 1998 that most Pynchon fans are in their
late 20's and early 30's

btw. is TPR still a lefty these days? is there much evidence for this
(apart from Vineland)?



On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:56:58 -0400, "The Great Quail"
<quail at libyrinth.com> said:
> 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
> 
> 
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