: Re: Pynchon, the normal guy

[Mike Weaver]

But does he dig Bert Weedon?
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn3hlyCv_f8>

Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote :

> i doubt I would even talk about his work if I ever got the chance to meet
> Mr Pynchon. Probably Godzilla or favorite beer.
> He strikes me as a normal guy in that sense.
> I mean he's not HP Lovecraft (finally reading Joshi's exhaustive biography
> thereof.)
> 
> rich
> 
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 6:32 AM Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I am conversationally friendly with a NYC writer online named
> > Margo Howard. She wrote something about not showing up for the
> > Nobel Prize and I did my bit---that is what the Swedish Academy most fears
> > as I've said here and why no Pynchon win, etc.
> >
> > She then riffed on TRP's reclusiveness, asking me about it, etc, esp with
> > his wife, his agent, etc.
> > Then she said that a young man who was her assistant on a recent book did
> > get to meet Mr. Pynchon. Pronounced him "normal" to her.
> >
> > That's all I got, folks. And it ain't much, I know.
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> >
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