[HN Gopher] Thomas Pynchon, famously private, sells his archive ___________________________________________________________________ Thomas Pynchon, famously private, sells his archive Author : bookofjoe Score : 16 points Date : 2022-12-16 22:15 UTC (45 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com) | Baxxter wrote: | I'm reading Bleeding Edge right now. I seem to remember it not | being too well received when it came out and it certainly didn't | get the kind of attention that was given to Inherent Vice. | Wondering if folks here paid any attention to it. | | But my god, Pynchon has an astounding mind. The breadth of his | cultural interests is vast. His wit is seemingly unending, almost | to a fault. Bleeding Edge is good - I don't think tech folks are | his primary audience, but it's great to read it with some | software background because you can parse a little bit more of | the BS, of which there is a lot. Pynchon is really interested in | the line between reality and conspiracy and if you have a tech | background and are interested in his work more broadly I think | that reading Bleeding Edge could help make his more challenging | works more approachable. At least that's what I'm hoping for | myself. | guggalugalug wrote: | Glad to hear you are enjoying. I read Bleeding Edge when it | came out, but was underwhelmed. It is characteristically | Pynchon, but did not enchant me in the same way as did Inherent | Vice some years earlier. | | Still, his best novels have got to be Gravity's Rainbow, Mason | & Dixon, and Against the Day. Those are the monsters. But you | get out what you put in. | neonate wrote: | https://archive.ph/N6wRk | | http://web.archive.org/web/20221216221543/https://www.nytime... | pizza wrote: | I'd strongly recommend the Inherent Vice movie; a neo noir | detective movie featuring a hippie detective nearly too stoned to | keep track of a particularly LA conspiracy. | dang wrote: | > Pynchon (pronounced pin-CHON) | | Hmm--who knew? | | He took Nabokov's course at Cornell btw. | jjulius wrote: | You can hear Pynchon pronounce it himself in his Simpsons | cameo. :) | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcYXWfGt7DY | dang wrote: | I was just watching it and didn't catch that! | | However. Since we can safely assume that he pronounces his | own name correctly, I think NYT transcribed it badly. He | doesn't stress the second syllable; he stresses the two | syllables equally. In other words, he says it as "pinch on", | the way you might say it in "something to pinch on". ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-16 23:00 UTC)