Pyn's Privacy

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

Just so it's said: great conversation, everyone!

On 5/10/13, Ben Canard <bencanard2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> 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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