Pyn's Privacy

[Andreis Passarinho]

i love 30% of it as dearly as anything by sor juana or cruz & souza, but
for most of the time I was personally just going 'huh'. maybe it needed a
different kind of attention that i was willing to give it at the time.


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Rev'd Seventy-Six <revd.76 at gmail.com>wrote:

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