Pyn's Privacy

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

> Vineland. Really? I rate that one rather highly. It's in my top three.

Agreed. To me next only to GR and CoL49, Vineland is the best from 
Pynchon II, the fresh novel
where we experience his updated style in purity. Those following have, 
and I think this includes
IV, older manuscripts at their base and are, thus, mixed in sound & 
vision. I've got the impression
that Bleeding Edge will be a completely fresh one, again. Looking 
forward to the read.

On 10.05.2013 19:29, Rev'd Seventy-Six 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
>>>>>
>>>>>