MICHIKO KAKUTANI

[David Morris]

The notorious Jules Seigal recalled that:

http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=2766

Among other things, Siegel claims that Pynchon had a penchant for pot
and hash and that he said while rewriting Gravity’s Rainbow, “‘I was
so fucked up while I was writing it …. that now I go back over some of
those sequences and I can’t figure out what I could have meant.’”

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Nushra MohamedKhan wrote:
>
>> Can't remeber if it is Hemingway or Fitzgerald or maybe it was both
>> and some other dude edited their drunken grammar . . .
>
> All of the above + Raymond Chandler. Whoever it was  was a 'designated
> editor.' What can I say? This is all pre Kerouac, pre-William S. Burroughs,
> pre-Brautigan. Pynchon, however, made some comment about extraordinary
> levels of intoxication & unedited passages in GR, as I recall . . .
>
>