Do you think he is at all concerned about his legacy? If so, do you think he simply feels that GR and a few of the other major works are enough to carry him, and that the continual output of minor works will not harm him?
He's a recluse, you honestly think he gives a fuck?
>>25272516Are you concerned about your legacy?
>>25272516Knowing you at least have a chance of being canonized is the literal best an author can hope for. It's never a certainty.
>>25272516we'll have to wait until after he dies for a surefire answer. he would've written about ambition/legacy in letters, private writings, whatever, but those won't be unsealed until he croaks. at this point he probably knows that gravity's rainbow + mason & dixon are his legacy. he probably just doesn't have the energy or the drive anymore to do more major stuff. most writers have one, maybe two, freak-of-nature type work in them, it's only the true aliens who have more than that
>>25272537Haven't you heard the story about how in the 70s he went to a party (semi-anonymously, of course) and some random guy there began shit talking GR and he began tearing up and left?
>>25272671sounds like bullshit
>>25272572I really hope some actual facts about him are released on the unfortunate day he passes.
