Fwd: [New post] What the hell is Pynchon in Public Day?
Mark Kohut
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Mon May 11 07:54:42 CDT 2015
Edwin Turner posted: " Pynchon in Public Day is tomorrow, May 8th--that's
Pynchon's birthday if you're keeping score. (He'll be 78 tomorrow. Last
year I put together links for his auspicious 77th birthday). For the past
couple of years, I've seen the phrase Pynchon in Public" Respond to this
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<http://biblioklept.org/author/biblioklepted/> What the hell is Pynchon in
Public Day?
<http://biblioklept.org/2015/05/07/what-the-hell-is-pynchon-in-public-day/> by
Edwin Turner <http://biblioklept.org/author/biblioklepted/>
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Pynchon in Public Day is tomorrow, May 8th--that's Pynchon's birthday if
you're keeping score. (He'll be 78 tomorrow. Last year I put together links
for his auspicious 77th birthday
<http://biblioklept.org/2014/05/08/happy-birthday-mr-pynchon/>).
For the past couple of years, I've seen the phrase *Pynchon in Public* pop
up in my Twitter timeline, often as a hashtag. I had a (willfully) vague
idea about what Pynchon in Public was all about--like, reading Pynchon
publicly, posting the W.A.S.T.E. horn in public places, leaving books
about. *Making the secret sign. *Etc.
But so and anyway: I've been reading or re-reading Pynchon more or less
non-stop for the past two years, after diving for reasons I can't recall
into *Against the Day*, following that up with *Mason & Dixon*, and then
going through *The Crying of Lot 49* and *Inherent Vice *again. (In the
deepest and most sincere spirit of my Pynchon-reading-experience, I
abandoned *Bleeding Edge *twice during this time). I'm rereading *Gravity's
Rainbow *now after just having finished it (after years of false
starts). Reading
it again is like reading it for the first time
<http://biblioklept.org/2015/04/21/a-first-riff-on-rereading-gravitys-rainbow-and-some-thoughts-on-weisenburgers-companion/>,
and as I progress (and sometimes retreat) through the Zone, I experience a
sympathetic fragmentation, a scattering, a sense that the novel is
consuming me. Another way of saying this is that *Gravity's Rainbow* is a
scary book, and all of Pynchon is scary in the sense that it's all just one
big book. It kinda sorta worms its way into the ear of one's consciousness,
wriggles (Ruggles?) behind the old brainpan, performs a paranoid song and
dance routine. Other fun and games too.
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*Edwin Turner <http://biblioklept.org/author/biblioklepted/>* | May 7,
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