List of biographical articles on Pynchon

[Bob Mccart]

Ah, thanks about Lineland. If someone happens to have it I'd appreciate a
copy.

I agree that Siegel's idea (GR as wish to confess) does not make sense if
you've read the book, and I think he admitted in the email interview that
he'd only skimmed it.

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> I share your doubts about the denial of the Playboy Japan interview.
>
> When Siegel seems to suggest in the movie of the Dubini brothers that
> Pynchon took part in MK Ultra on the agency's side, this appears like
> character assassination to me. The idea that "GR was the 'wish to confess,'
> or something [karmic adjustment?]" makes not really sense in the given
> context. In this book there is a predecessor of Ultra, but the truth serum
> with which Slothrop gets treated is not Acid. Despite the partly
> psychedelic way the book is written and despite the fact that an Ultra like
> project appears in CoL49, there is simply no hint for Siegel's thesis,
> which seems not to have been built on the basis of reading, let alone
> rereading, anyway. If Pynchon was confessing anything by GR in a coded way,
> it would be his Boeing involvement at Bomarc Service News and his thinking
> inside the deadly patterns of the Cold War. The Rocket Gnosticism of
> Raketenstadt ...
>
> Concerning Lineland, I can only say that the digital data of the text
> circulated offlist among P-listers during the late 1990s. Unfortunately I
> don't have the data themselves anymore yet only a printout. But perhaps
> somebody out there can pass the data on to you. It's definitely a funny
> read!
>
>
> On 28.09.2014 01:29, Bob Mccart wrote:
>
> Muchas gracias, Kai.
>
>  Do you happen to know if the booklet Lineland is available as text or
> .pdf online? I haven't been able to track it down, and don't have a good
> shipping address right now.
>
>  The video 'documentary' on Pynchon featured a pretty crazy looking
> Siegal, explaining the idea that GR was the 'wish to confess,' or
> something, of Pynchon's involvement in spreading LSD to the young.
>
>  That's interesting that Pynchon's wife denied the playboy interview. But
> I mean despite all the jokes Playboy is not exactly a rag, and I figure
> they could risk some big money if they print a completely fabricated
> interview with a public figure--even if it was in Japan.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> You should also have a look a the following two articles ---
>>
>> Andrew Gordon: Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon: A Sixties Memoir
>> (in: Green/Greiner/McCaffery, eds., The Vineland Papers, pp. 167-178).
>>
>> John M. Krafft: Biographical Note
>> (in: Daalsgaard/Herman/McHale, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Thomas
>> Pynchon, pp. 9-16).
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The first biographical article on Pynchon was written by Mathew Winston:
>> The Quest for Pynchon (in: Twentieth Century Literature, 21, 1975, pp.
>> 278-287).
>>
>> Finally, regarding Siegel: His booklet Lineland, in which the early
>> P-list got - to quote Paul Mackin - "played like a violin", contains a lot
>> of additional information. Thing just is that you never know whether the
>> things Siegel reports are true, because he had personal issues with
>> Pynchon.
>>
>>
>> On 27.09.2014 03:00, Bob Mccart wrote:
>>
>>>  What are the essentials? I want to know what I'm missing.
>>>
>>> I have the Jules Siegal playboy article.
>>> I have one short Siegal email interview.
>>> I have the Pynchon playboy Japan interview, translated.
>>> I have the picture of Pynchon, bearded, in a light colored suit, at a
>>> wedding (Siegal's?)
>>>
>>> Anything else?
>>> Thanks!
>>>   -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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