aw. Re: Where did ...

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Oh Tom, Tom!  Set aside your fiction for now, and grace us with a collection of autobiographical essays!

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 24, 2011 3:02 PM
>To: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: aw. Re: Where did ...
>
>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.
>>