>The Huntington is likely to draw a flood of requests to access the Pynchon archive, which it says will be open to qualified researchers after processing, which

>The Huntington is likely to draw a flood of requests to access the Pynchon archive, which it says will be open to qualified researchers after processing, which it estimates will take a year. “The kind of research this archive is going to support is advanced scholarship, literary scholarship,” Brooke said. And the archive, she added, “is not for the casual observer.” The published novels themselves take a lot of time to grapple with,” she said. “The drafts are even more complicated.” As for whether biographers and journalists would be granted access, Brooke said, “We evaluate all requests on a case-by-case basis.” How delightful. I certainly wouldn't want to read something too complicated. These people really are a wannabe priestly class