Re: Speaking of Pynchon… (SLPAD)

[Dee Kilroy]

"He once talked about a story built around or containing environmental
activism as I recall."

Intriguing...  I might could sense the seeds of that in Vineland.  (It's
very much the right place & time for spiking trees.)  Where'd you chance
across this?

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 1:38 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> 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.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>> --
> >>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >>>
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> >>
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