Odds of another Pynchon novel

[Jamie McKittrick]

Slow to return to my line of questioning, sorry. Happy to see the sparks
flying about though. My reasoning for the question was thus:

Pynchon is alive. The curious cat in me wants to know if he has another
novel or two that he is working on. We currently have no way on earth of
knowing.

Pynchon is also approaching the grave. Though he may still have thirty-odd
years left in him - and a many happy day I wish him - the fact is that he
will not be around forever.

Drawing crass parallels: Salinger - another so-called reclusive author -
after his passing, left a stash of novels to be published posthumously.
Does Pynchon have any unpublished works? Very likely. Are any of these
unpublished works novels? It's possible. Is he working on something at the
moment? Almost certainly.

The Atwood parallel is moot. We can go to one of her public talks, we can
write to her agent, we can send her a fan letter and ask "Are you working
on another book, Margaret?" and she will say "Oh, I've got a little
something up my sleeve." Not so with Pynchon. I asked first whether he had
any other books coming up, and so it's only natural curiosity leading me to
natural conclusions: what happens when the big P shuffles off this mortal
rizla?

-J

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 4:19 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> In GR this need 4 Control is always about Tech's needs. Please weigh in,
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> On Tuesday, June 16, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Scientific analysis is porn in GR because it strips away the "mysterious
>> and fecund" as sacred truths embodied by the Virgin, and replaces that
>> magic with a mathematical equation. GR's Arch-Villian attempts to reduce
>> Life's complexity (mystery and existential awe), our natural experience of
>> the Spiritual, to a determinantable (dead) End to All Mystery.  In this
>> regard, Pynchon is very religious/spiritual in his deeper works.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Tuesday, June 16, 2015, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> But it is Adams's Education, and, satirically, Stencil's quest or search
>>> for meaning, for identity and causality, for what, for Adams, is lost and
>>> can't be recovered, the Force that he describes in the famous chapter on
>>> the Virgin, that is formative. Not so White Godless or Frazer...Eliade etc.
>>> The Virgin force, mysterious and fecund has degenerated into the inanimate.
>>>
>>> It's Christmas Eve, but the Virgin will not deliver. Still, the force of
>>> Mother is all around, yet only the Father, in fragments is known. But She
>>> is. GR may be read as a response to Pig and Profane and the whole sick
>>> crew's abortion.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:18 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It goes much deeper than Adams. The Virgin isn't owned by Adams. His is
>>>> but one framing.
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, June 15, 2015, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> They are tools that can be discarded. But what are the forces that use
>>>>> them? Brock has his funding cut, not by anything mysterious,  insidious, or
>>>>> monstrous, but by  government agency. Windust is a tool of government
>>>>> agency and its cumbersome and often ineffectual ventures with multinational
>>>>> business and agency.
>>>>>
>>>>> In contrast, in GR, the monstrous and insidious forces are invisible
>>>>> and mysterious, beyond the comprehension of, let alone, the reach of any
>>>>> coordinated counter cultural resistance.  The force is, for lack of a
>>>>> better term, as Dwight Eddins so artfully and elequantly describes it, a
>>>>> Gnostic Force. This force is born from Pynchon's readings of Adams and is
>>>>> the driving force or theme that makes V. a masterpiece first novel.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
>>>>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "Brock? Windust? Not forces invisible, mysterious, insidious,
>>>>>> monstrous. Just here and now. So What? "
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whatever else they may be, Vond and Windust are also tools of "forces
>>>>>> invisible, mysterious, insidious, monstrous." Tools which can be discarded
>>>>>> at any time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
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