Writing NYC (Whitehead's Zone One)

[Mark Kohut]

Colson has written he is a(nother) Pynchon fan. When I got to meet him around 2008, he had not yet read AtD but he asked me
if, as he had heard, it had so much packed into it because the internet made that easier? I told him No, I didn't think so because P
has to already know, in most senses of the word, what he is layering in.....the internet helps us 'get' it faster, I said (pointing to the great wiki).....
Then laid my pet belief that TRP started writing AtD long before he published M & D, maybe I said shortly after GR was finished
...he semi-listened to that....said nothing. 

From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2013 6:38 AM
Subject: Writing NYC (Whitehead's Zone One)



So, yeah, like I had like already actually read Whitehead, and actually found that, like, um, he's actually not a bad writer, and he's like Black, sort of, from the Bronx, and, like I can relate to like Sag Harbor, and like to what that's actually like, and um, that Black Lady in The Intuitionist, like the whole Oedipa but Mass Mass NYC futuristic conspiracy, and like in Zone One, like I can hear the voice of a high school writer, and like, if that is deliberate, and not like, some inherent vice, to like make the book sell, it's way cool. But is it? And like, the City, all like a cemetery, like all that figurative stuff about it being, like some kinda Paris in Hugo's notre dame, it's like way cool, cuz W has like this way of making images, but, like, he writes so awkward and uneven and....you know. And so, retiring to that AGTD, that tome of terrific Tom, I am not concerned that I maybe spend too much time re-reading it.  
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