Re: Speaking of Pynchon… (SLPAD)

[Joseph Tracy]

He once talked about a story built around or containing environmental activism as I recall. Wonder if he ever started it. 

> On Feb 17, 2023, at 10:05 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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