Pyn's Privacy

[bandwraith at aol.com]

I'm fine with Pynchon. I have no interest in digging into his personal life. I'm busy enough with my own. I have no problem with people who do try to find out whatever they can, as insipid as they might be, because, frankly, it goes with the territory of being a great artist. I am amused by those who feel the need to protect Mr. Pynchon, as if he required that, and as if they wouldn't sneak a peek at this illicitly obtained foto, or that snippet of overheard conversation. They always seem so earnest and full of good will. So, I say, Right on!



-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, May 10, 2013 4:53 am
Subject: Re: Pyn's Privacy


Right on.

---- Original Message -----
rom: Rev'd Seventy-Six <revd.76 at gmail.com>
o: bandwraith at aol.com; "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
c: 
ent: Friday, May 10, 2013 4:44 AM
ubject: Re: Pyn's Privacy
"This is America. You let it happen."
We differ. I believe it's a wretched error to confuse the artist with
is work. The fascination with Pynchon only enriches his work to a
ertain degree. Past that it is his life, and I see no reason he
houldn't be able determine our interactions with it. That goes double
or cretins with cameras ambushing him when he's trying to have a
leasant day with his son.
On 5/9/13, bandwraith at aol.com <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
 paring himself the press. Yes, he's created this relatively novel
 ituation. He didn't create a society based on commodifying celebrity,
 ut he has to live in it if he's to be an American author. It's what
 e wants to be in the world he wants to live in, yet we as a culture
 nd homo sap in general are notoriously nosy, and American fandom in
 pecific is the pits when it comes to digging through people's trash
 nd brandishing overweened entitlement all the while. He hasn't posted
 arbed wire but he's put up rather a lot of signage indicating Keep
 ut. His self-image may have informed this drift into hermitude but
 hy question his position? Am reminded of how creeped-out I felt
 atching The Life of P.: here was a black market in a living man's
 orrespondence. Some call it study, but it seems to have more to do
 ith 'solving' an artist rather than comprehending his works--
 articularly those works formulating a Theory of Disappearence.
 --
 tt



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