The 'Waste' Law | Pynchon's genealogical influences

[Daniel Harper]

Hmm... you may be right. Might be time to revise my conclusions based
on new evidence.... nah, that's the rationalists' way out!

On Nov 21, 2007 3:26 PM, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Pynchon is so reputed for this phenomenon of
> > reclucivity
>
> By whom? I have, like Mark Kohut, a few second- and third-hand connections,
> whose reports are unanimous that there's nothing hermit-like about him.
>
> *Everything* else comes directly or indirectly from the giant echo chamber
> of people whose business, one way or another, is bookchat -- reporting on
> authors, publicizing authors, interviewing authors, gossiping about authors
> -- and therefore assume that not playing with them is something that *needs*
> explanation. I don't.
>
> > and he goes to such lengths to maintain it
>
> It wouldn't take many incidents such as Jules Siegel's Playboy article, or
> the West End Avenue paparazzo, to turn that into self-fulfilling prophecy
> for me... and,  I would hope, to make my friends as protective as his are.
>
>
> (I also suspect that the hyper-intense engagement a lot of us have with his
> work must have led, by the time CoL49 came out if not before, to an
> exceptionally high rate of
>
> "OMG, you're Thomas PYNCHON?!? Stand there for an hour while I rave about
> how you TOTALLY ROCK MY WORLD!"
>
> ... which could get old pretty quick.)
>
>



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