Pynchon-News: Spray-Painting Pynchon

Narrenhände beschmieren Tisch und Wände. Noch immer stehen die Täter nicht fest, aber es gibt eine weitergehende Interpretation der Geschehnisse:

As the university begins its cleanup operation and the police investigation continues, two questions remain: Why? And who?

The reasons behind the unusual literary graffiti could be as varied as the many interpretations of Pynchon’s novel. Alan Liu, a professor of English at UCSB who has assigned The Crying of Lot 49 in his courses, said he wasn’t necessarily surprised that the horn has made itself known on campus. He compared the symbols to the ubiquitous “Kilroy was here” graffiti spread around the world by American servicemen during World War II, a reference Pynchon would have known (and in fact used in another novel) after his early work for a military contractor in Seattle.

Liu said he wouldn’t necessarily be surprised if the perpetrators ended up being some of his students. The book, he said, “is at once an example of thinking about information networks and a critique of information and communication networks.” And the secret postal service, represented by the muted post horn, is “the network in particular of the underclasses, of people who are oppressed, people who are marginalized in one way or another.”
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Pynchon could not be reached for comment.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/11/29/pynchon

Natürlich war Thomas Pynchon nicht für einen Kommentar zu erreichen, warum auch!