Pyn's Privacy

[Matthew Cissell]

"This is America", god I wish you hadn't said that. I associate it with contorted faces screaming"USA, USA". I don't even know what you're trying to say with that.

 By the way I have a problem with people telling me "Get used to it" I put that imperative up there with 'That's just the way it is', well like Hornsby sang, don't ya believe it. I don't.

Did I say he was worried about his family? Check my post, it's not in there. Embarrassing Simpson's episode? What was so embarrassing? And for whom? 

By the way, he asks for no special treatement that I am aware of, he simply defends his privacy. And what does his standard of living have to do with it? Because he is a successful writer he should join in the media-publicity-marketing machine? Right.

Personally I admire the guy for handling it the way he has. Apparently you don't agree. Fine by me.

Good luck in America.

ciao
mc otis


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From: "bandwraith at aol.com" <bandwraith at aol.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: Pyn's Privacy



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
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. -- 
htt