Subject: Re: Recluses: Salinger and Pynchon
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Sun Jun 29 1997 - 10:52:22 GMT
>Since I am new to this list, I don't know if this has been
>covered before. So, if this is redundant, you have my apology.
It has been discussed, but you bring a good angle to the discussion. Note
that you can always review the past postings, if you have web access, at:
http://www.nyu.edu/acf/staff/oconnort/JDS
I just updated it last night to include recent postings; I'll probably not
do another for a few days.
>The thing that was most interesting and frightening about the
>article to me was how easily they could find him using the
>Internet. This is the very type of intrusiveness that Pynchon
>has been inveighing against for a long time, and for which he
>has been criticized as being paranoid. Well, as the old
>expression says, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the
>world is still not out to get you.
What I find astonishing in all this discussion is that Pynchon's wife is a
reasonably well-known literary agent, so it's not as if he lives in a
hermitage. I love the idea that all we know of his appearance is that
yearbook photo. That's great! But this business of stalking and
photographing people who want to be left alone is tawdry.
Will and I both have a copy of the NY Post front-page thing on Salinger
being hunted by two photographers. The inside headline was something along
the lines of: "Gotcha, Catcher!" I didn't think the Post could be as low
as that, but as usual, they never fail to satisfy. Of course, being the
packrat that I am, I bought a couple of copies for my personal archives....
--tim
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