Why?

[matthew cissell]

As you have pointed out someone above Cork had to sign off on Irwin doing
the gag. But let's look at it from the other side: Do we think Pynchon
didn't have input on the speech? Reall? I'm sure many suppose that he and
Irwin (solid old time lefty like Frenesi's parents) colaborated on the
speech. The problem is citation. If you can't show clear evidence then you
don't have much.

   But a bit more. Could this be an early sign of the Mage that would
eventually begin to produce the cultural equivalent of winking out from
behind the mask without ever showing his face? This is taken to the ironic
extreme in the Simpsons where he only nominally appears. And then the voice
for IV. Perhaps there is a slow shift in his reluctance to speak beyond
what is 'said' in his books.

I suspect that will be confirmed one day.

ciao
mc

On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> haven't pynchon obsessives and scholars of his every word moved Prof Irwin
> Corey's "acceptance speech" at the GR National Book Awards into the realm
> of his writings? Or have they and I'm a Know-Little?
> Seems obvious he wrote it, most of it, right?
>
> https://mobile.facebook.com/groups/1415607478674712?ref=bookmarks
>
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