[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature


View post   

File: 1.38 MB, 2200x3037, 1443312504029.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853779 No.15853779 [Reply] [Original]

In Joshua Cohen's review of Pynchon's Bleeding Edge, he says that

>Only ten images of Pynchon are publicly available, including a video captured by CNN in 1997

Ten... I haven't been able to find that many. Let's see if, between us, we have them all.

<- That's #1.

>> No.15853791
File: 841 KB, 2598x3907, 1443312596522.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853791

#2

>> No.15853798
File: 99 KB, 1200x1200, 1443312658512.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853798

#3

>> No.15853809
File: 14 KB, 190x259, 1443312720995.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853809

#4

>> No.15853816
File: 24 KB, 236x404, 1443312782332.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853816

#5

>> No.15853862
File: 86 KB, 492x369, 664CC39F-F6C3-4EA8-A9CF-535F1CC10DB2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853862

#6?

>> No.15853884

>>15853862
No dingus. That’s the journalist who wrote the article

>> No.15853885
File: 412 KB, 360x965, PynchonEvolution.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853885

>>15853779
Here's three more.

>> No.15853889

>>15853779
What a stud, wish I had a honeycomb of boipucci back there to offer up

>> No.15853895
File: 23 KB, 199x266, EE57D29C-2E9C-448A-9FDC-8BE59F3C8E60.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853895

#6

>> No.15853904

>>15853885
That middle picture is genuinely frightening.

>> No.15853921

>>15852756
?

>> No.15853922
File: 60 KB, 211x279, 1443312923987.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853922

#7

>> No.15853926

>>15853921
#7. #8 is CNN.

>> No.15853928
File: 20 KB, 350x350, 1443313068876.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853928

#8

>> No.15853936

>>15853779

What an ugly bastard

>> No.15853948
File: 487 KB, 550x752, 1443313329873.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853948

#9

>> No.15853959

>>15853779
Friendly reminder: some Nord took a bunch of photos of old Tommy Ruggles before the National Enquirer got a hold of him.

>> No.15853966

>>15853779
What the fuck is his problem?

>> No.15853969
File: 30 KB, 475x477, 1443313893725.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853969

#10

>> No.15853977

>>15853959
Also his current physical address is in the archives, corresponding to this same Norwegian article

>> No.15853982

>>15853966
entropy

>> No.15853986
File: 77 KB, 198x747, 1443316065545.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853986

#11

>> No.15853999
File: 272 KB, 940x1015, 1443312531445.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15853999

#12

>> No.15854007
File: 16 KB, 250x247, 1443314993193.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15854007

#14

>> No.15854027

>>15853977
>Also his current physical address is in the archives, corresponding to this same Norwegian article
Share it fellow

>> No.15854061

>>15854027
Trying to look it up now. It’s been awhile. But if you read the translated Norwegian article and compound that with the Variety article you can find the address yourself pretty fast. There’s only so many prewar classic six apartments right up the street from that rare book store.

>> No.15854093
File: 110 KB, 596x588, Screenshot_20200713-223142_Firefox.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15854093

#15

>> No.15854099

>>15854027
Building: 203 West 81st Street

203 West 81st Street, New York, NY, 10024

>> No.15854118
File: 43 KB, 720x340, 72834787283487234.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15854118

#16

>> No.15854141
File: 161 KB, 639x724, 4QvCx7i.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15854141

The National Inquirer got this. He`s not a literal recluse, only a media recluse. He has a family and walks around and stuff. Anyone with some effort can track him down and stalk him and snap some photos, like what happened here >>15853999 (the story goes that the photographer wanted to shake Pynchon`s hand but Pynchon got mad and said something like, get your fucking hand away from me, I don`t like getting my picture taken).

>> No.15854163

>>15854141
Yeah me had dinner with Michael Chabon, I imagine there are plenty of people in his wife’s inner circle (Lorrie Moore, notably) who have met and simply thought to never disclose anything about Pynchmeister.

>> No.15854170

>>15854163
*he

>> No.15854172

>>15854163

And then there`s the band Lotion who said they met him but just made up a fake meme story (Pinecone probably did actually write the liner notes to their album though).

>> No.15854194

>>15853779
Why can't I find Melanie Jackson in here?

>> No.15854197

>>15853936
You wish you were Thomas Pynchon.

>> No.15854201
File: 764 KB, 1080x1920, Screenshot_20200713-224609.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15854201

>>15854194
>Get it together, Maxine

>> No.15854205

>>15854194
perhaps there is no such person

>> No.15854213

>>15854197
What was his reading routine like early in life after the Navy?

>> No.15854251

>>15854213
In his Charlie Rose interview he claims to read everything aloud.

>> No.15854261

>>15854251
interesting suppository

>> No.15854289

>>15854251
do you think he strategically applied echoes, perhaps orating into the percussive rafters of acoustically enriched homes?

>> No.15854306

>>15854289
huh? he lives in manhattan

>> No.15854329

>>15854251
a treasure

>> No.15854339 [DELETED] 

I took pictures of an old guy yesterday that I’m feeling made to think is Pynchon, this old dude with a long space between his upper lip and nose who noticed me somehow, he was making the exact same facial expression as in >>15853999, not posting anything though. Prove me wrong? I’m an excitable boy, so don’t hold your breath.
It wasn’t in New York also, no reason I would’ve seen him where I was other than for no reason like everything else that happens.

>> No.15854348

>>15854251
One of the best Rose interviews.

>>15854325
Huh? No one cares, not funny, not pynchie. Grab a banana and go screw.

>> No.15854352

>>15854251
I still swear his arms were prosthetic or he'd tucked his real arms into slyly lengthening sleeves that then enabled Pynchon to "rule the table" as Rose crossly put it, with such grandiosely gestured pauses, ponderings, pontificatings etc

>> No.15854353

I’m not posting my post I was going to but I’m entirely interested here

>> No.15854358

>>15854306
>>15854348
>huh
hey Algernon, you forgot your flowers?

>> No.15854370
File: 31 KB, 290x348, camus-book-news.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15854370

Is this not Pynchon?

>> No.15854373

>>15854370
we're all pynchon

>> No.15854375

>>15854352
Holy shit I didn't notice the arm stuff

>> No.15854385

>>15854251
his accent :3

>> No.15854424

>>15853999
I didn't realize Donald Duck's half perturbed half exasperated "Hey, what's the big idea here?" was an obvious allusion to Pynchon to those scholarly enough to be in the know

>> No.15854440

>>15854251
still the record for most verifiably accidental shatterings of prop mugs

>> No.15854445

>>15854370
That’s Mitch Cumstein, famed inventor.

>> No.15854515

>>15854352
Where can I watch this?

>> No.15854557

>>15854515
i saw it on ytmnd once, but i think rose doesn’t want it seen.

>> No.15854594

>>15854515
kgara

>> No.15854618

>>15854557
Why doesn't he want it seen? I searched that side and it wasnt found.
>>15854594
Not sure what this is, my friend.

>> No.15854641

>>15854618
pynch kept making insinuations.

>> No.15854659

>>15854515
invite only section of ytmnd forum, someone still owns the rights to it and all that

>> No.15854689

>>15854659
How does one get an invite? This interview is really intriguing me.

>> No.15854709

>>15854689
make popular ytmnds I guess

>> No.15854735

>>15854709
Is that the only way? Fuck. Guess i wont be seeing the interview.

Thanks anyway anon.

>> No.15854815
File: 29 KB, 330x458, EDC63462-283A-4DFF-BE52-17F7A0AAE4E1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15854815

This is Gary Snyder, but Pynchon is supposedly cropped out of the photo. Maybe we’ll see the full picture after he goes

>> No.15854828
File: 4 KB, 250x236, 3688CFE8-297A-477B-A917-37D441942CDB.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15854828

>> No.15854829

>>15854815
oh shoot, I can feel the giggles about to drown me, why, consarn it
>I've been Pynched

>> No.15854878

>>15854172
They met him, he interviewed them for Esquire. The drummers mom is his accountant as well.

>> No.15854891

>>15854197
When i read his books, yes perhaps. But when I look at his light 4/10 subhuman face and skinny build i am like ''No thanks''.

>> No.15854983

>>15854891
I bet you’re a regular Rock Hudson.

>> No.15854992

>>15854891
Your pedantry eclipses your vanity.

>> No.15855059

>>15854992
just cuz he doesn’t like pynchon doesn’t mean he fucks kids, dude.

>> No.15855219

he's a typical hippie liberal and his books aren't that good, who cares

>> No.15855227

>>15855219
post taste faget

>> No.15855365

>>15855059
Lol

>> No.15855921

>>15855219
>typical hippie liberal
Did not know typical hippie liberals were devout roman catholics. Always learn new things on this board.

>> No.15855931

>>15855921
Pynchon’s a devout Roman Catholic? Proof?

>> No.15855984

>>15855931
He grew up going to episcopal servies with his father and roman catholic services with his mother and continued on the roman catholic. A longtime friend (Speigal? something like that, another writer) who has known him since Cornell talks about it in an article he wrote and there is another such article that is escaping me at the moment, it is 3AM and hot. Apparently ol Tommy never msises mass. I think the Speigal guy also said that that Pynchon was best man at his wedding and later on had an affair with his wife. The article is interesting if you can find it, don't recall if it was all about Pynchon or just an aside in an article about Spiegal, I mainly remember that Spiegal came across as downright fond of the fella despite the whole wife fucking thing.

Perhaps some other anon can provide the other article or source. Maybe he mentions it in the preface to Slow Learner?

>> No.15855997

>>15855921
>>15855984
US Catholics are often hippie liberals, you stupid pseud

>> No.15856032

>>15855997
Hippies are almost as a rule against western religions.

>> No.15856036

>>15856032
not the catholic ones

>> No.15856045

>>15855997
You use “are” as if to imply hippies still exist.

>> No.15856072

>>15856045
that is because 'hippie liberal' is pretty much anyone that does not agree with him.

>> No.15856085

>>15854251
?? what interview?

>> No.15856089

>>15855921
You are an actual pleb if you think Pynchon is anything but far-left. Even if he is Catholic.

>> No.15856091

>>15856085
the one with Pynchon.

>> No.15856092

>>15856085
Read the thread, dude.

>> No.15856100

>>15854163
why do you suck Chabon's dick so much? Even on youtube you're like Chabon has the best cock...c'mon Gianni

>> No.15856110

>>15856089
I never said anything regarding his political standings, thats just the /pol/ rot setting in, you can't see past it.

I do not recall ever seeing anything written regarding his standings, going off his writings and what we know, I would expect he would be far left by late 80s/early 90s standard, so fairly moderate these day.

>> No.15856112

>>15856100
Michael Chabon (allegedly) has a roughly triangular penis when erect. Wide at the base and comes to a point. Stands a proud four inches out of his large, dark bush. Thing also smells like chicken gone bad.

>> No.15856257
File: 60 KB, 700x665, 1451482466681.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15856257

>>15853798
I have this one as a mouse pad. I bet the Pynch would hate it

>> No.15856300

>>15854141
I always imagine him young because of the pictures I've seen so it's weird seeing him look his actual age.

>> No.15856369

>>15854983
>>15854992
T. 3/10 subhumans

>> No.15856384

How tall is he? He looks like a manlet.

>> No.15856613

>>15854992
You just wanted to use the word 'pedantry' didn't you? Heh.

>> No.15856960

>>15856384
6'1

>> No.15857203

what does the phrase pynch-drunk mean

>> No.15857299

>>15856089
Just like true 4chan

>> No.15857304

>>15856613
That's a big word for you

>> No.15857348

>>15856613
try it, anon.

>> No.15857355

>>15857304
No. But you don't understand it seems.

>> No.15857361

>>15856960
Lies. There is no way he is that tall, look at him next to his 7 yr old son.

>> No.15857363

>>15854370
Must we imagine Pynchon happy?

>> No.15857374

>>15857361
Pynch is self conscious about his height and wears shoes that actually reduce his tallness

>> No.15857379

>>15857363
he just had a footlong turkey bacon ranch, why wouldn't he smile?

>> No.15857389

>>15857374
So, are all manlets secretly tall and self conscious?

>> No.15857538

>>15856089
what if he's a secret Tump voter ? Is that his dark secret ? He worked in defense once

>> No.15857547

>>15857389
Yes, although perhaps not on Opposite Day

>> No.15857604

>>15857538
ctrl f pyncho corpus: six million

>> No.15857619

>>15853779
>>15853791
>>15853798
>>15853809
>>15853816
>>15853895
>>15853986
>>15853999
>>15854141
>>15854828
Well that's ten, if you include the newest "scoop" of him as an old man.

>> No.15857644

>>15857547
Won't he be a woman that day? Amazon probably.

>> No.15857822
File: 273 KB, 600x522, Pynched.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15857822

#17

>> No.15857881

>>15857644
>Amazon probably
you wanna answer a question I haven't even asked yet, you smarty pants Pinker-haired Manhattanite recluse? You think I'm some PBS capuchin in a suit you can mince around with your iambic deflections and Canterbury jokes?

>> No.15858353

>>15857881
this poster thinks he gets pynchon cringe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.15858362

I was watching a doc on his work and some academics said that one of Pynchon's aims was to take a shit on academics and their industry by leading them through a maze of references. Is this true?

>> No.15858370

>>15858362
That would be Jim Joyce, not Pynch-o

>> No.15858471

>>15854099
Big if true

>> No.15858494

>>15853779
>gonna go pynch a loaf, Mel

>> No.15858544
File: 1.98 MB, 210x508, IMG_1478.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15858544

>>15858494
do you think he pinches people or do they pinch him? what's the ratio? was he pinching WAVES girl butts saying "I bet you need some TP, heh?"

Are his pinches sting like? Or cheek grabby?

Has he ever said "the ol' Pynchon pinion" when concluding a well-crafted argument? Has it been said to him?

Does "pinch" even occur in his corpus? Is there a list of words that Pynchon has never used?

>> No.15859026

>>15854099
>>15853977
Well what are you guys waiting for? Someone who's from the area stake out that building and get us a picture of him.

>> No.15859225

>>15858544
I’m gonna cum

>> No.15859380

I wish it was possible to become a successful author today while being a recluse and not using social media.

>> No.15859393

>>15859380
if you think otherwise you've been bamboozled by charlatans

>> No.15859399

>>15859026
NYfags are pussies

>> No.15859499 [DELETED] 
File: 2.30 MB, 2143x3000, thomaspynchon_0517_0489.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15859499

203 West 81st Street, New York, NY, 10024. Find him.

>> No.15859542

>>15859499
MODS HE'S STALKING HIM DELETE THIS

>> No.15859543
File: 438 KB, 791x639, .eJwFwUsSgyAMANC7cABCCOLnIF24YxDBjgpD0m46vbvv_dSnn2pRRaTxArAdHGvfNEvtISeda81nCu1gHesFQSTEcqVbGCySQZwRjbET-gEJyEw0O09Ezg9uHNHCyt_3_iq63Vn9H_-tIoA.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15859543

dumb Jew book.
what were these niggers thinking when they got off the boat. should have taken more than one step before patting yourself on the back.

>> No.15859586

>>15859543
wrong thread

>> No.15859609
File: 514 KB, 1500x2000, thomaspynchon_0517_0460.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15859609

>> No.15859620

>>15859609
holy........

>> No.15859627

>>15859609
Kino.

>> No.15859641
File: 1.64 MB, 2250x3000, thomaspynchon_0517_0454.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15859641

>>15859620
>>15859627

>> No.15859650

Seeing Pynchon as an old man makes me deeply depressed.

>> No.15859701

>>15859650
How come?

>> No.15859721

>>15859609
SUPREME MANLET!! I WAS RIGHT! AHAHAHA AHAHAHA!

>> No.15859847

>>15859701
Call me a fanboy faggot, but he's always seemed bigger than life to me.
I just hope we get one more book before he joins the counterforce forever.

>> No.15860522

>>15859847
he is tho

>> No.15861045

>>15854251
this is a troll right? i can find zero evidence that charlie rose ever had pynchon as a guest

>> No.15861296

>>15854329
kek

>> No.15861310

>>15856085
u just got PYNCHED

>> No.15861334

>>15861045
Ahahaha another victim to the timeless gag. I bet you feel like a FOOL! #PYNCHED

>> No.15861344

>>15861045
it's on wikipedia

>> No.15861514

>>15853884
dummy, the journalist was Pynchon himself

>> No.15861530

>>15854251
Pynchon is so based

>> No.15861583

>>15861344
They took it off the page at his request, you can still find the link burried in the talk along with a rather ridiculous debate regarding removing the link.

>> No.15861668

I’m so old I remember watching the Charlie Rose segment when it aired. Not a very good talk, since Rose is one of the dumbest fuckers alive. I also remember Ruggles’ shirt being very ’new age.’ Was it around Vineland or M+D? I’d say the latter since it was a Big Book and the ’proper return’ but I can’t recall.

I think they kept Martin Amis in a little cage in the studio, he seemed to be on every episode at one point. And always hawking a shitty new novel. Same with BEE.

>> No.15861703

>>15853922
didn't know Pynchon was a dozen of pixels

>> No.15861726
File: 85 KB, 201x197, 1349633461192.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15861726

>>15861703

>> No.15861742
File: 364 KB, 606x380, uKSBtd2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
15861742

>> No.15862666

>>15861726
okay now enhance