Pyn's Privacy

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

"This is America. You let it happen."

We differ. I believe it's a wretched error to confuse the artist with
his work. The fascination with Pynchon only enriches his work to a
certain degree. Past that it is his life, and I see no reason he
shouldn't be able determine our interactions with it. That goes double
for cretins with cameras ambushing him when he's trying to have a
pleasant day with his son.

On 5/9/13, bandwraith at aol.com <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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