Pyn's Privacy

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

Again, I think it's as much about sparing his family as it is about
sparing himself the press. Yes, he's created this relatively novel
situation. He didn't create a society based on commodifying celebrity,
but he has to live in it if he's to be an American author. It's what
he wants to be in the world he wants to live in, yet we as a culture
and homo sap in general are notoriously nosy, and American fandom in
specific is the pits when it comes to digging through people's trash
and brandishing overweened entitlement all the while. He hasn't posted
barbed wire but he's put up rather a lot of signage indicating Keep
Out. His self-image may have informed this drift into hermitude but
why question his position? Am reminded of how creeped-out I felt
watching The Life of P.: here was a black market in a living man's
correspondence. Some call it study, but it seems to have more to do
with 'solving' an artist rather than comprehending his works--
particularly those works formulating a Theory of Disappearence.

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