Reclusion as marketing ploy - tired trope

[Mark Kohut]

Most of your threads here are impossible to prove and wrong,
as I've argued.....Pynchon on the Simpsons is also an homage 
to a show---and a style of work---he loves....as well as a metajoke
about his privacy...................
 
He has from the first NEVER accepted a Prize that required words,
with or without an appearance. 

From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: Reclusion as marketing ploy - tired trope

Pynchon and his wife have lots of control over how he is marketed.
That they made an effort to shift his persona from "it can't be a
young new author and must be some other great author to the recluse
and possibly cranky paranoid Mao II author hiding in the woods after
VL and the unibomber and wanda tanasky is not difficult to prove. The
bag on the head Simpsons Pynchon was clearly a ploy and it worked. His
last, Inherent Vice, was all ploy. If P were to win the Nobel, he
would pick it up in person. He would never decline it.
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