Jules Siegel"s Playboy article

[Joe Allonby]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Please excuse the double posting.
>
 Somewhere else in the
> essay, Pynchon notes how life experience is central to quality of writing,
> how real-time-boots-on-the-ground  experience leaves a bigger imprint on the
> soul than something out of a book.

I have thought that this might be central to P's reputation as a
recluse. Does the act of observing change that which is observed or is
it that knowledge of being observed causes the change? Here comes the
famous writer, everybody act interesting in a natural way. If nobody
knows what he looks like, his presence is less likely to influence the
life that he needs to experience in order to write.

Just my thought.