A Brazilian journalist interviewed a bunch of Pynchon's exes

[jesse gooch]

What piece of journalism is this? Natalia’s I mean. A google search just goes to her FB page and I feel weird looking through strangers’s FB pages.


> On Jun 13, 2017, at 9:59 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I was being glib, Natalia, hope you didn't take the comment as criticism. You've probably written the most substantial piece of Pynchon-journalism this century.
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> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 6:44 AM, Natália Portinari <natalia.portinari at gmail.com <mailto:natalia.portinari at gmail.com>> wrote:
> hey, 
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> yes, 500 is exaggerated, it includes terms that aren't necessarily characters. I used this (as far as I remember):
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> http://russillosm.com/grindex.html <http://russillosm.com/grindex.html>
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> so, the A4 is not a proper character, for instance, but I thought it wouldn't make sense to keep it out and then include something like "M.F. Beal", which is just a reference and actually less of a character than the A4, if you know what I mean, even in a traditional narrative sense.
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> and thanks to everyone who said they liked it, it took a lot of work!
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> best,
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> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Douglas Holm <dkholm at mac.com <mailto:dkholm at mac.com>> wrote:
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> There is an index to the characters in Gravity’s Rainbow published in an academic journal from the University of California, Davis, but I don’t have the specs, because I trimmed it down and pasted it into the back of my hardcover edition of the book. The index is four pages long with dual columns. I could make a PDF of it if anyone is interested. There are about 40 names per column so if my arithmetic is adequate there are roughly 320 characters in the book. 
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>> On Jun 12, 2017, at 7:29 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com <mailto:sundayjb at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Great find Bruno. Also pleased to note that the mythical figure of 400+ characters in Gravity's Rainbow has now expanded to more than 500! Also pretty sure that the supposed 500 of us here on the P-list is an equally fictional number.
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>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk <mailto:mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>> wrote:
>> That was a fun read. Great last line.
>> Thanks Bruno.
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>> On 12-Jun-17 5:24 PM, Bruno wrote:
>>> Well, I just found out that there is an English version of the article:
>>> http://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/the-fake-hermit/ <http://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/the-fake-hermit/>
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>>> 2017-06-12 11:09 GMT-05:00 Bruno <bruno.laze at gmail.com <mailto:bruno.laze at gmail.com>>:
>>> http://www.jornalopcao.com.br/colunas-e-blogs/imprensa/reporter-da-piaui-ouve-colegas-amigos-e-tradutores-e-traca-perfil-de-thomas-pynchon-96389/ <http://www.jornalopcao.com.br/colunas-e-blogs/imprensa/reporter-da-piaui-ouve-colegas-amigos-e-tradutores-e-traca-perfil-de-thomas-pynchon-96389/>
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>>> On occasion of Bleeding Edge's publishing in Brazil, Natália Portinari interviewed many of TRP's ex-girlfriends. Apparently he was fond of married women.
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