My buddy, whom I shall call Suwanee (not his real nickname), defends Pynchon this way:
"My
sense of Bleeding Edge was that, after decades of hiding out,
sleeping on friends' couches, staying stoned and watching tv and
reading pulp novels, Pynchon grew up, got married, and had kids and
settled down. He still has the vivid writing style, madcap humor, and
post modernist multiple perspectives. His characters still seem
to feel like they are part of some huge thing they don’t understand
at all, and they see connections and weird explanations that never
really amount to much, but in this book, Maxine has a real life to go
back to. Benny Profane didn’t."
In other words, Suwanee believes that Pynchon is still alive and wrote the book. The "got married" is the real problematic part, but I'll save that for another post.
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