Our boy Pynchon
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 16:20:35 CDT 2008
Not for argument sake. Just disagreement. Why so touchy?
If it weren't for his extreme avoidance of publicity he'd be of little
interest. He has created the (small) monster of paparazzi catering to
a minuscule market. How many CNN viewers gave a damn about that story
other than the geeks I mentioned. People would be more inclined to
ignore him if he'd not made himself such an enigma.
David Morris
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Argument for argument's sake. Okay ...
>
> On 3/18/08, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It's not like he's really a celebrity, is it? Literature geeks might
> > be problematic, but I doubt it. Can you really imagine Pynchon
> > paparazzi? ...
>
> http://cgi.cnn.com/US/9706/05/pynchon/
>
> http://www.salon.com/media/1998/09/22media.html
>
> That James Bone article seems to have dispappeared online (see now why
> I post everything at length?) ...
>
> http://www.vheissu.info/biblio/namen.php?p=155
>
> But then there's, e.g., ...
>
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=B57rdx15wNs
>
> Ah, the good ol' days. How I hate them ...
>
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