clipping

[BenProfane at aol.com]

Hello all you fellow Pynchon fans!

As my first submission, I would like to share a clippling from the April 20,
Los Angeles Times re TRP. 

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Two decades ago, instead of a script, the youths might have tried to pen a
novel and follow in the footsteps of Thomas PYNCHON. The reclusive author of
"Gravity's Rainbow" and "Vineland" lived at 217 33rd St. in Manhattan Beach,
in a small downstairs apartment next to Beach Pizza (then the Fractured Cow).

According to Jim Hall, executive director of the Redondo Pier Assn., PYNCHON
wrote "Rainbow" in his apartment in the late 1960s, holing himself up for
weeks at a time. Hall, then in the Army, met PYNCHON through a mutual friend,
among a circle of aspiring writers and artists.

Coincidentally, across 33rd street lived actress Phyllis Coates, best known
as the original Lois Lane on TVs "The Adventures of Superman." PYNCHON, it
turns out, dated her daughter, according to Hall.

Hall remembers the author as a man who carried around a small plastic pig and
lined the walls of his apartment with swine photos. PYNCHON often read
Scientific American, a scholarly journal heavy in technical writing.

"He was deathly afraid that he would plagiarize another author," Hall said.
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Thats all for now, hope this wasn't redundant info.