What I happened upon....

[Dave Monroe]

My position is, it's interesting, I've no problem with
even his picture being on there, in fact, I don't see
why anyone should have a problem with it EXCEPT for
the kid's parents, if anyobody, but if anyone's going
to whine about it here, well, ultimately the only
responsible thing for them to do would be to do what I
found myself doing in a fit of preemptive
exasperation.  If you think something might possibly
endanger a child, you don't ignore of even willfully
forget that it's there, you say something about it. 
But given the benign nature of everything involved,
it's ultimately only the Pynchons' business if it's up
there or not.  So all you can do is let them know. 
Me, I don't like to feel that I've possibly ratted
some kid out, but, then again, on the one hand, y'all
were concerned about Pynchon's privacy, or our
depravity, or whatever, so, well ...

--- jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:

>
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.
> 
> 


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