aw. Re: Where did ...

[Albert Rolls]

Howabout a collection of all the nonfiction with the impossible-to-get 1999 halloween essay included? 


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>From: kelber at mindspring.com
>Sent: Sep 24, 2011 3:41 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: aw. Re: Where did ...
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>Oh Tom, Tom!  Set aside your fiction for now, and grace us with a collection of autobiographical essays!
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>Laura
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>>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 ...
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>>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
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>>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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