Pyn's Privacy

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Please. This is America. Get used to it. If the man is worried about his family, let him return to engineering or technical writing. I'm sure he'd do fine, and perhaps we'd all be spared more embarrassing Simpson's episodes. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad for his art, but he deserves no special treatment. He lives better than most of us.


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From: Rev'd Seventy-Six <revd.76 at gmail.com>
To: malignd <malignd at aol.com>; pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, May 9, 2013 9:35 pm
Subject: Re: Pyn's Privacy


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

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