Pyn's Privacy

[alice wellintown]

http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Foucault-AuthorFunction.html


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:

> Right on.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rev'd Seventy-Six <revd.76 at gmail.com>
> To: bandwraith at aol.com; "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 4:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Pyn's Privacy
>
> "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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