P's P's Please

[Paul Mackin]

Not very authoritative.  No footnotes probably because sources aren't very
authoritative either.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 3:56 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Tyler,
>
> Thanks, I had forgetten about the Kachka piece. That must have been it,
> but I thought I had come across something that referred to his parents
> later years and a reconciliation of sorts.
>
> (What is the Pyn community consensus on the piece? I know that Jules
> Siegel's Playboy interview is sometimes called into question on grounds of
> motive (self-serving, revenge, etc.), but what about Boris' work?)
>
>    Ok, wait, you deserve big thanks my man. I went back to look at the
> Kachka piece and not only does it have the line you mention, but it also,
> further on, includes that in the 1990's, "Pynchon told friends he was
> seeing a lot more of his parents" which following what we know about
> Pynchon's politics and his parent's (father a Serious Republican and mother
> a serious catholic and likely anti-semite) allows us to infer that there
> was at least a rift of sorts that was then mended.
>
>   That's what I was after. I owe you a beer, or whatever.
>
> Very Appreciatively,
> Matt Cissell
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Tyler Wilson <tbsqrd at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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