“Everything is some kind of a plot, man.”

May 10, 2015 7:11 PM

A Journey Into the Mind of P. [YouTube]

A documentary, written & directed by Donatello Dubini & Fosco Dubini, mostly on the authors [Thomas Pynchon] reclusivness, how it's been dealt with by some hysterical fans, old friends, critics... containing some interesting interviews & speculations on the themes of Gravity's Rainbow & how they relate to the historical realities of the american fifties & sixties, the paranoid politics of cold war logic, megalomaniac experimental psychology, the callous mindset of military engineering, & so on...

Related: Have you seen this man? [The Guardian]

posted by Fizz (6 comments total)

Music by The Residents!
posted by Joseph Gurl at 10:39 PM on May 10, 2015

“Everything is some kind of a plot, man.”

All plots tend to move deathward.
posted by thelonius at 4:47 AM on May 11, 2015 [1 favorite]

The author of that Guardian piece seems not to have noticed that J. D. Salinger died, writing about him the present tense.

Then again, who knows?
posted by beagle at 6:12 AM on May 11, 2015

The author of that Guardian piece seems not to have noticed that J. D. Salinger died

Er... that grauniad article is from May 2003.
posted by Mister Bijou at 6:25 AM on May 11, 2015

Er... that grauniad article is from May 2003.

Argh! The author of my previous comment seems not to have noticed that.
posted by beagle at 7:02 AM on May 11, 2015 [1 favorite]

Creepy guy stalks reclusive author. Creepy, creepy, creepy guy full of propagandulous speculations. I'd hide from the time traveling historians too. Aren't the amazing books enough?
posted by Oyéah at 3:47 PM on May 11, 2015