Pyn's Privacy

[Ben Canard]

Sparing his family? I can't imagine how annoying it must be to be Jackson
Pynchon, at least at times. I guess he has advantages that most don't have
access to. But just think how many times he must have been asked about his
father, from those who were in college with him, perhaps even professors,
and just numerous other random folks who find out who he is. Someone I know
from another state found out where his band had a gig in NY a few years
ago. It was close enough to where I live, and he bugged me for weeks to go
and see if I could run in to dear old dad. I declined, but how many didn't.
And how many accost him with questions just because dad isn't around.


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:

> "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.
>
>
> -----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. --
> htt
>
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