Pynchon, the normal guy

[David Morris]

Conspiracies can be spiritual or existential.  Military or governmental
aren't required.

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 4:02 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oh!
>
> Well, although there can be a "conspiracy" element to Lovecraftian
> fiction, particularly the contemporary variety wherein the Military
> Industrial Complex is often portrayed as being interested in developing
> certain long-hidden secrets into forms that can be exploited for "defense"
> purposes, that element is far from ubiquitous.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 6:04 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Never read Lovecraft, but know about Chullu and hidden plans and such.  I
>> generally hate conspiracy fiction, unless it is very refined.  Even so, I
>> think it cheap.  So "Lovecraftian" fiction isn't a term I can easily try to
>> understand w/o prejudice.
>>
>> That said, care to elaborate?
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 4:44 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How is the Joshi?
>>>
>>> I've been following Joshi's career and reading his Black Wings of Cthulhu
>>> collections, representing the best of contemporary Lovecraftian short
>>> fiction (of multiple different types... and featuring some wonderful
>>> stuff,
>>> as well as some mediocrities, unfortunately), and was thinking of picking
>>> up his more academically grounded work.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 9:36 AM 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.
>>> > > --
>>> > > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> > >
>>> > --
>>> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> >
>>
>>
>>> --
>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>
>>