aw. Re: Where did ...

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Sat Sep 24 14:02:33 CDT 2011


when you've sunk yr soul deep and emerged to tell the tale, to
encompass and enlighten and make the strange not less strange but
clearer in some paradoxical way, well, it would be wise to realize the
dangers of the revisit, for only the shell remains and hard as you try
that's what you'll give birth to, a soulless hollow authentic
hyper-strained shell--tom's been trying too hard lately and it sadly
shows in this artful era of the hyper-authentic with no soul. he's
been there, he should know better, better to have M&D been his last
book

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:35 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> .then Pynchon was gone to write VL and the new wave, a
> superposition of women authors and non DWM authors hit the colleges
> and book shores. We recall that strange mixture of excitement and
> disappointed when Tom Pynchon, like some, I'm Big in Japan Dylan, went
> Japanese electric landy land POLITICAL. Keep it in the characters,
> man. But Tom, once so much older than, although Grover had his
> politics, was younger than that now. His wife made him do it. He would
> introduce his Cornell collection of juvenailia with a screed,
> defending the poor and powerless masses, the working man's dead would
> haunt romances hereafter. He sold out on IV, a movire that fears and
> loathes its own trippings down the burnt out alleys of memories where
> fog from the faded pages of hard boiled bitch goddesses wrestle with
> the buxom best sellers, but finished his USA, his American series.
> And, I thinbk, it is done.
>



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