Pyn's Privacy

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

Re: Vineland. Really? I rate that one rather highly. It's in my top
three. It seems no nuttier than the rest... Tho sex ninjas aren't to
everyone's taste.

On 5/10/13, Andreis Passarinho <eastcocker at gmail.com> wrote:
> i think only vineland really suffers from his `disappearance` (making him
> sound insane and not in a good way). but GR and Against the Day (although
> maybe not inherent vice) all, I think, benefit from his absent and so
> lovable cardboard cutout.
>
> delillo seems to deal with it pretty ok, although he needs his leather
> jacket to bear it (which heh).
>
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:31 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
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