Pynchon's Face Especulation

[Natália Maranca]

a) yeah.

b) I agree with you.

c) you're right.


2007/12/18, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>:
>
> 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.
> > >
>
>
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