Why?

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, all true on real citation, of course......but YES too to the
ambiguous--so Pynchon--area of Mage metacommentary wink.....the book jacket
words....yes, the Simpsons, and so on.

LIKE IT!

On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 11:24 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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