Reclusion as marketing ploy - tired trope

[Matthew Cissell]

1) "Pynchon and his wife have lots of control over how he is marketed." I think we can all agree to that.

2) "They made an effort... not difficult to prove." Hmm. Prove as in demonstrate? I think you have you work cut out for you.

3)  The bag on the head "was clearly a ploy", here you seem to focus on only one aspect of his "appearance" on TS. Can we separate the visual from his statement ("I love being photographed.")? or the fact that the bag on the head has its own showbiz history? Apparently we 'read it differently.

mcc

----- Original Message -----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 12:48 AM
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.
p