Pynchon's Face Especulation

[Michael Bailey]

a) you mean that video wasn't authentic? oh, well --
at least then I'm not intruding...

b)  although Slothrop and Cyprian tend to plumpness,
and Reef has a beer-belly, every description of Pynchon that I've
read that was written by people who met him has --
(tortuous syntax alert: klaxon and rotating red lights)
umm..how about,
so far as my reading has informed me,
everybody who's met the guy says he's on the lean side.

c) I can't do a photoshop myself, so I have no standing to
criticize, but I kept seeing it as a Cubist thing, where the
round upper nostrils were left over from the youthful face,
and the more ovoid, lower set, partially obscured beneath
a slightly hooked nose, represented where age had moved them to.



On 12/17/07, Natália Maranca <nmaranca at gmail.com> wrote:
> actually I rather picture him like in the youtube video also. but the man in
> the video is way too young. not that there's any need for two nostrils or
> anything like that.
>
>
> 2007/12/17, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> > I'd say a little more paunch would make this transformation a lot less
> creepy.
> >