What if P. was Ghost-Written?

[Michael Bailey]

but to the question of the first part

Let us suppose in good humor that a new book by Pynchon is published in
> April 2013, it's perhaps a Step Down from I.V., another detective novel,
> set in California, etc.
> Now let us suppose Christmastime brings a Travels of Reverend Cherrycoke,
> an appalling piece of rubbish imitating P. but pleasing in all the
> guiltiest ways, the story, poorly written as it is,
> has some of the same Imaginative spark in which Pynchon's work is so
> deeply immersed.
> How would you feel?
> What would your reactions be?
>

i would basically read them with delight

and let us suppose that (i never tire of this joke) like Shakespeare's, the
works of Pynchon were not written by Pynchon at all, but by another man of
the same name...

i suspect that this fellow's prose would win my admiration

following the Sportello series which would elucidate Doc's future and past
episodes, the further adventures of the likes of, oh, say Kevin Spectro and
the children of the Schwarzkommando born of secret couplings below Enzian's
thanatopsic radar amongst the ruins and runes of the Zone, or even of
Enzian himself stumbling into Geli Tripping's abode dog-tired and ready to
seduce or be seduced...would hold my interest...oh yes

another tack would be to invest somebody like the aunt in M&D with an
Oedipa-like protagonism...

ah well, next time i get to New York I'll meet the author in Bryant Park
and give plot ideas this stellar away to him by the bushel for the mere
price of letting me buy him a cuppa

a cup a cup a cup a cup a cup
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