Pyn's Privacy

[rich]

the last two books are/will be all about his past in LA and living in NYC.
that's all we get. we shouldnt expect more. I'm reading William Gaddis
letters at the moment. finding them very dull. artists like magicians need
a certain mystery wafting about them. as Pynchon's writing gets less
mysterious well he's like Madame Psychosis in Infinite Jest--she's ultimate
in fog and whispters to begin with, she eventually drains away into a
boring annoying character. not too different from life


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Prashant Kumar <
siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Think I agree with B. here. Besides, the kind of celebrity you're
> describing, Rev., isn't one literary authors achieve.
>
> That said, if P chose to open up, he'd surely go blind for all the
> flashbulbs. It's the void that's created the means to fill it; his
> hermeticity *is *the reason people would hound him if they could.
>
> P.
>
>
> On 10 May 2013 12:08, <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
>> 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.
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