Pyn's Privacy

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

Excellent riposte, Alice.

On 5/10/13, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Foucault-AuthorFunction.html
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> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
> wrote:
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>> Right on.
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>> ----- 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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