photography

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Mark Kohut wrote:

>I think Pynchon thinks photography IS soul-sucking, is a stealing of one's 
>natural self....part
>of the beginning of technology's wrong uses....

I think you're right, and I'll even substantiate it with a quote: In David 
Hajdu's book "Positively 4th Street" (the one about Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, 
Mimi Baez and Richard Fariña, where Pynchon contributed via interview by 
fax), Hajdu quotes from a letter Pynchon wrote to Mimi Baez:

"I know it's dumb to have an anti-photograph Thing, but it's how I am. Dick 
used to kid me about it - what's the matter, you afraid people are going to 
stick pins, pour aqua regia? So how could I tell him yeah, yeah, right, you 
got it." (p. 178)

So there you have it....

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