IVIV amethyst is resilient. There is too much kindness in the room all of a sudden.

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:45 AM, rich wrote:

> On 9/8/09, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Joseph Tracy wrote:
>>> Why should the "idea" of this family have come first? Maybe the  
>>> texture,
>>> the
>>> experience the kindness of a real family came first. Maybe this is  
>>> based
>>> on
>>> someone real from Pynchon's life. Not the specific narrative  
>>> arrangement
>>> but
>>> a family that was fucked up on heroin and found a new start. I  
>>> think this
>>> story is  a real part of the world and sometimes people who have  
>>> hit some
>>> kind of bottom will hang onto and appreciate love.
>>
>> well said.
> -----------
> that's all well and good and in reality who the heck would argue
> different. But it makes for lousy fiction
>
> rich

Autobiographical detail often makes for lousy fiction.