TRP the Man

[John Bailey]

You could read this at least three ways:
1) His novels reveal a lot about him and he's surprised people don't
notice. There's a lot of personal experience written into V. at least,
maybe Vineland, probably Inherent Vice and definitely Bleeding Edge.
It's harder to see how the other novels could reflect that reading.
2) In real life he was feeling that people were more interested in
talking about themselves than hearing him which isn't an uncommon
feeling for someone who's a little shy or introverted, and I imagine
California (or San Narcisso?) at the time was full of people who were
really extroverted.
3) A throwaway joke that didn't make it into the writing.

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> From a 1998 NYT article on Pynchon's letters to his old agent...
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> In 1978, in what might have been a response to a suggestion that he write
> his autobiography, he says: ''As for spilling my life story, I try to do
> that all the time. Nobody ever wants to listen, for some strange reason.''
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> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm with Laura.
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>> > On Apr 26, 2017, at 9:40 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>> > wrote:
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>> > smile  -
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>> > Becky
>> > https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
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>> >> On Apr 25, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> he's writing, I say....and we will never guess it because........
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>> >> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 4:20 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Howdy all
>> >>
>> >> Pynchon turns 80 in a week or so. I wonder, considering the depressing
>> >> news cycle we are currently under, what he thinks, after all that work
>> >> giving the man the finger. He got through Nixon, he got through Reagan.
>> >> and now Drumph.
>> >> I wonder  what would he want to end his career on. Can it be Bleeding
>> >> Edge? its a possibility I suppose. I think we can be realistic and think the
>> >> man has at most one book left. A tale of the future, a return to the
>> >> interesting life of Sofia Kovelskaya, just barely touched upon in AtD. or
>> >> maybe silence
>> >>
>> >> rich
>> >>
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