Pyn's Privacy

[Prashant Kumar]

Think I agree with B. here. Besides, the kind of celebrity you're
describing, Rev., isn't one literary authors achieve.

That said, if P chose to open up, he'd surely go blind for all the
flashbulbs. It's the void that's created the means to fill it; his
hermeticity *is *the reason people would hound him if they could.

P.


On 10 May 2013 12:08, <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
> 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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