Dear Tim,

[David Kipen]

Hmmm. Next spring marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune. Maybe
Pynchon’s planning a marketing tie-in.

Meantime, has anybody heard anything from Vancouver about a possible
conference? My wife sez the Joyceans are still planning as if their 2021
conference in Trieste will happen. Lads, we’re not going to let a bunch of
fecking modernists show us up, are we?


On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 11:53 AM Doug Millison <dougmillison at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I hope Pynchon is not dealing with medical challenges, not unusual for a
> man his age. I like to think he’s writing instead.
> -Doug
>
> On Nov 29, 2020, at 11:35 AM, Tim Ware <tim at hyperarts.com> wrote:
>
> Yes! Definitely want to see that. Did anyone read, and/or enjoy, the TCB
> novel “Outside Looking In”? Worth a read, I think.
>
> As some may know, I’m puzzled by Pynchon’s total silence during a time
> that easily outstrips his own paranoid musings. He’s certainly capable of
> modern commentary and it’s disappointing that he’s remained silent. Of
> course, maybe he’s working on the next Big One and will cast our time in
> the Broader Picture… or he might drop dead and that’ll be that or, worse,
> one more work of detective fiction and *
>
> Then again, nothing should surprise us as regards P. And we’ll have plenty
> on our hands with what he’s already published.
>
> A mutual friend told me P was working on a novel that incorporates the
> Paris Commune 1871, and he was dispatched to France to do research. But
> we’ll see.
>
> Stay safe & well,
>
> Tim
>
>
>
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>
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2020, at 8:51 AM, David Kipen <kipend at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Fellow Pynchomanes and friends, did you see this?
>
>
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/movies/my-psychedelic-love-story-review.amp.html
>
> Could Joanna Harcourt-Smith’s ambiguous affair with Timothy Leary, and her
> disappearance into the witness-protection program, have helped inspire
> Frenesi?
>
>
> A happy thanksgiving to all,
> David
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 7:54 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was just thinking of a wiki like the other ones you've done beyond
>> Pynchon, maybe. On this song but like the Pynchon, Infinite Jest ones
>> where listeners could cite the allusions and comment on the meaning of
>> lines, images, etc...
>>
>> I hear it as a dirge for the idea of the ideal America, embodied in JFK
>> the
>> Camelot King,  with buried Faisher King and his lands and heart
>> of the people and other godsend Bough stuff....some GB stuff influenced
>> TRP
>> to, it seems, sometimes thru Eliade.....towers, etc.
>>
>> One of the OP Henry Adams' works which TRP surely read is *The Degradation
>> of the Democratic Ideal. *Has some physics ideas of the time---and Adams
>> went big into History with them. Entropy for example.
>>
>> Keep On Keeping On.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:24 AM Tim Ware <tim at hyperarts.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks Mark. I guess I don’t really understand what you’re asking me to
>> > do. Actually, only Dylan could’ve done this song and he did.
>> >
>> > I wasn’t aware Dylan and Pynchon were/are friends. How is this known?
>> >
>> > Stay well. Strange days indeed.
>> >
>> > Tim
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > *..:: **Tim Ware | HyperArts** ::..*
>> > T: 510.339.6084  E: tim at hyperarts.com
>> > 201 4th Street , Suite 404 . Oakland CA 94607
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/201+4th+Street+,+Suite+404+.+Oakland+CA+94607?entry=gmail&source=g>
>> -4372
>> > www.hyperarts.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mar 28, 2020, at 4:03 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I hope you are more than well during this Love in the Time of Corona.
>> And
>> > all you love are too.
>> > I was going to write you a real Thank You letter before now and send
>> > something as I always think about and still use
>> > the Pynchon wiki.....but, then the world exploded and turned inward and
>> > made us all have to help each other or die
>> > inside.
>> >
>> > So, I am sure you have learned of and listened to Dylan's first new song
>> > in eight years. I know you don't waste [pun intend] your time
>> > with the Plist as some of us do but i did just post my exuberant
>> > appreciation and it led me to this thought:
>> >
>> > Only you could do this song, and we know Pynchon and Dylan are (or were)
>> > some kind of friends, some rough justice online now
>> > by making it part of your still-alive wiki.....explication and
>> > associations like any masterpiece, I suggest.
>> >
>> > Anyway, if you cannot for any reason, please take care.
>> >
>> > Mark Kohut
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
>
>> --
>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>
> --
> Pssst! The New York Times just called my new book "ebullient and often
> moving":
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/books/review-dear-los-angeles-david-kipen.html
>
>
>
> --
Pssst! The New York Times just called my new book "ebullient and often
moving":
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/books/review-dear-los-angeles-david-kipen.html