What I happened upon....

[jd]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/oedipa/ThomasPynchon.jpg

What's the deal

Anyways yeah there was a bit too much on this list about the guy's kid
lately, I definitely vote we vie away from that, the kid is not the
author, shouldn't be considered a window to the author, and in general
I bet is pretty sick of people bugging him about his dad.  We in no
way have any right to have any contact with him or his family.  It's
just wrong.  Even if you think he's doing it "for the wrong reasons"
or whatever, well, that's his bag.  Now, we might stumble across stuff
like the above photograph, and frankly, we're pretty big fans, so we
can't do much to keep ourselves from looking (and anyways I'm not
convinced it's real).  But once it goes beyond being a photograph on
the internet or reading a few essays about it... that's just too far.

Just my two cents.