aw. Re: Where did ...

[Tom Beshear]

If the non-fiction is ever collected, it will be done posthumously.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Kohut 
  To: Albert Rolls ; Pynchon-L 
  Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 5:45 PM
  Subject: Re: aw. Re: Where did ...


  Predicting's hard, especially about the future: I say we will never get a collection of his
  non-fiction from Ms. Jackson because, in some sense, he thinks of them only as scaffolding............
  and pointers ala Slow Learner. 

  We would have had them by now otherwise. 

  Predicting out my ass.............but who else thinks likewise or contrary?

  Mark


  From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
  To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
  Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 4:07 PM
  Subject: Re: aw. Re: Where did ...

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


  -----Original Message-----
  >From: kelber at mindspring.com
  >Sent: Sep 24, 2011 3:41 PM
  >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
  >Subject: Re: aw. Re: Where did ...
  >
  >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.
  >>>
  >



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20110924/a3eaf231/attachment.html>