Pyn's Privacy

[malignd at aol.com]

So you feel certain Jackson got this job wholly on the merits?



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From: Jeff Sunbury <jsunbury at gmail.com>
To: Ben Canard <bencanard2000 at gmail.com>
Cc: Pynchon List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, May 10, 2013 10:28 am
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Innersting. Ben's comment prompted me to Google Jackson and learn that he is credited as an intern working on PTA's film 'The Master'.  For the sake of argument, let's say that the famously reclusive author's fame is like the gravitational force of a black hole measurable by observing visible objects orbiting around it. Can we assume the members of this P-list experience a stronger pull than non-fans and even less from the non-literature masses? As Jackson matures (is he 20 y/o now?) and finds his position in the universe, is it possible that the famously reclusive author will one day in the future be widely known as Jackson's father? And to to resolve the metaphor, the gravity and resultant radiation gradually fade to black. Happy Days



On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:24 AM, 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


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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.



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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
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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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