[HN Gopher] Thomas Pynchon, famously private, sells his archive
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       Thomas Pynchon, famously private, sells his archive
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2022-12-16 22:15 UTC (45 minutes ago)
        
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       | 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".
        
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