P's P's Please

[Tyler Wilson]

Matthew —

Though it isn't stated explicitly, that information can be gleaned from a couple passages of Boris Kachka's 2013 piece for Vulture:

http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/thomas-pynchon-bleeding-edge.html

" . . . he and his then-girlfriend, Mary Ann Tharaldsen, were driving through Big Sur when she complained of nausea. She wanted to stop at a bar and have a shot to settle her stomach. According to Tharaldsen, he exploded, telling her he would not tolerate midday drinking. When she asked why, he told her he’d seen his mother, after drinking,  accidentally puncture his father’s eye with a clothespin. It was the only time, says Tharaldsen, who lived with him, that he ever mentioned his family. “He was disconnected from them,” she says. “There seems to have been something not good there.” "

"Pynchon and Jackson married in 1990 and had a son—first name Jackson—a year later. Pynchon told friends he was seeing a lot more of his parents. . . . "

Cheers,
--
T


> On Feb 18, 2016, at 3:59 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear P-listers,
> 
> I have a problem and that is that I could swear that I read somewhere that  Pynchon had been a bit estranged from his folks but that he eventually made peace with them. Does that sound familiar to anyone? Where did that come from? I can't find the source now. Was it from Phyllis Gebauer? 
> 
> Beseechingly,
> mc otis
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