IVIV (0) This Lively Yarn

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Pynchon and yarn-spinning:
 
>From the blurb to 'Been Down So Long It Looks like Up to Me':
 
"In spinning his yarn he spins the reader as well, dizzily 
into a microcosm that manages to be hilarious, chilling, sexy, 
profound, maniacal, beautiful and outrageous all at the same 
time."
 
>From the blurb to 'My Escape from the CIA (And Other Improbable 
Events)':
 
"He comes as close to the core of the business as anybody has, 
because he is not only a writer with an enormous genius for 
spinning a yarn, but also one whose fine ear is tuned both to 
the reverberations of global history and to the secret whisperings 
of the human spirit."
 
>From the blurb to 'DeFord':
 
"What makes Shetzline's voice a truly original and important one 
is the way he uses these interference-patterns to build his novel, 
combining an amazing talent for seeing and listening with a 
yarn-spinner's native gift for picking you up, keeping you in the 
spell of the action, the chase, not letting go of you till you've 
said, yes, I see; yes, this is how it is."
 
Also, recall how Slothrop inserted "fantasies into the yarns he 
spun for Tantivy back in the ACHTUNG office" (GR, 302). And in V.,
Victoria's uncle returns from Australia, "bringing no gifts but
his wonderful yarns" (V., 72-73) - just one example of many in V. 
where Pynchon speaks of yarns. Pynchon sure likes his yarns.




 
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