Re: Speaking of Pynchon… (SLPAD)

[rich]

that's interesting take. I know Gaddis worked on AA for quite a long time
and eventually was so influenced by the intense rants of Thomas Bernhardt,
he found his format.
for Pynchon I'd be willing to read even the unfinished or abandoned stuff
if there is any, ala Malcolm Lowry's output.

rich

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 11:14 PM Dee Kilroy <deadendkid76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since I view his library as a Chronicle, sorted in order of the era the
> volume represents, I figure he's got maybe an Agapē Agape-length volume
> left of sentiments to spare for, I dunno, a decade of daunted hopes defined
> by and led by its naughts instead of its Aughts.  I don't imagine he'll
> write about Covid.  But he'll probably cuss everything that happened up
> until we started mobilizing the refrigerated trucks.
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 4:31 PM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > OK, I don't have my ATD handy, but there's a description of the end of a
> > sea journey (maybe when Dally's arriving in Europe?) that talks about the
> > vast horizon of the sea narrowing as the ship heads to port; a narrowing
> of
> > possibilities. Who wouldn't look at aging that way, at times? Whatever
> the
> > accomplishments, the joy of the journey, the possibilities are dwindling
> > away to nothingness. Though I still hope he has something more to share
> > with us.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 4:22 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Oh Ghod no - I think he’d be in awe of _Bleeding Edge_, whose edges are
> > so
> > > much less rough than _V._’s
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:32 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Pynchon turns 86 in May. Would his young writer self, to whom the
> whole
> > >> world was open, new, free of rules or cares, 86 this guy? I think he
> > might.
> > >>
> > >
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