A Brazilian journalist interviewed a bunch of Pynchon's exes

[jesse gooch]

Wait, so is there something you wrote? 

> On Jun 13, 2017, at 11:08 PM, Natália Portinari <natalia.portinari at gmail.com> wrote:
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> yeah man. I don't, that's why I write stuff like that, I guess. a lot of professional stalking and Facebook-lurking.
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> John, of course I didn't take it as criticism. but it's fun to debate the number (what's a character in a novel like GR anyway?). and there's some translation mistakes in my piece, too, they're being corrected one at a time, so please point out things that are weird...
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> Em 13 de jun de 2017 23:35, "jesse gooch" <jlguuch at gmail.com <mailto:jlguuch at gmail.com>> escreveu:
> 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.
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>> On Jun 13, 2017, at 9:59 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com <mailto: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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