Pynchon's back catalogue

[Carvill John]

Yep, great stuff Laura.
Tore's quote from that Donadio letter reminds me of the Slow Learner intro (which I go back to again and again and...):
Why I adopted such a strategy of transfer is no longer clear to me. Displacing my personal experience off into other 
environments went back at least as far as "The Small Rain." Part of this was an unkind impatience with fiction I felt then 
to be "too autobiographical." Somewhere I had come up with the notion that one's personal life had nothing to do with 
fiction, when the truth, as everyone knows, is nearly the direct opposite. Moreover, contrary evidence was all around me, 
though I chose to ignore it, for in fact the fiction both published and unpublished that moved and pleased me then as 
now was precisely that which had been made luminous, undeniably authentic by having been found and taken up, always 
at a cost, from deeper, more shared levels of the life we all really live. I hate to think that I didn't, however defectively, 
understand this. Maybe the rent was just too high. In any case, stupid kid, I preferred fancy footwork instead.  


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