Dear Tim,

[rich]

I still have hope:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Jaclard

rich

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 9:19 PM David Kipen <kipend at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > *..:: **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 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
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >
> >> --
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> >>
> > --
> > 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
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