Odds of another Pynchon novel

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Me too has difficulties with seeing IV in VL,
my guess is the following:

IV takes place where GR ends; I think Pynchon wrote a first draft of IV 
after he finished GR. Then it lay in the drawer for three decades before 
Pynchon had an idea: Hey, this could bring me to Hollywood! And so he 
worked it over.


On 17.06.2015 19:42, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Yes, I have wondered if he at least conceived it---IV--- during those
> long years of writing the longer books
> and maybe started it (I bet he is an outline first kind of writer, but
> pure speculation) with 'his left hand" as
> that phrase for offhand works goes.
> I personally cannot see it 'in' Vineland in any way, but I sometimes
> lack imagination.
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:15 PM,<kelber at mindspring.com>  wrote:
>> Not much (or any I can think of, really) overlap between M&D and the other two. But it's interesting to think about how the private eye genre might have been floating around between ATD and VL. ATD ends with Lew Archer [link to Deep Archer?] as the hard-boiled LA detective. Was IV possibly spawned at this time, as private eye material that he decided not to incorporate into VL?
>>
>> Laura
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mark Kohut<mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>> Yes, we know almost nothing about Pynchon's working habits and working
>>> attempts. That unscientific and highly fallible sense of
>>> circumstantial evidence
>>> leads me to think he worked on at least three books at once since GR.
>>> We know what they were. The last of those was published in 2006. Since
>>> then he has written
>>> two others both now published. I think that writing and living are
>>> joined with him, so I think he is writing something new. Always.
>>> Until.
>>>
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