Reclusion as marketing ploy - tired trope

[Matthew Cissell]

Talk about TP and the Nobel invites speculation, but that doesn't mean that all we do is speculate. I don't think we are guessing when we try to make sense of this very private author and his forays into the public light, at least no more than we read a text and try to make sense of it. Or are our readings also mere speculation since we don't 'know the truth'? Are we involved in a little game? Yes, i think so; but it is not a horse race. 
 
mcc
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 2:59 AM
Subject: Re: Reclusion as marketing ploy - tired trope

Itz all just speculation. We don't know. Sure, Simpsons is a joke, is
a homage. Itz also a marketing ploy.
That's what makes a horse race. None of us knows shit, we're just
guessing. But my guess is as good as yours. In fact, I think mine is
better. So, there it is.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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