A scenario

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On Sun, 11 Jun 1995, Paul DiFilippo wrote:

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> 
> One day, as we all must, Thomas Pynchon dies.  
> BUT--
> Those near and dear to him do not tell anyone!
> How would the news possibly leak?  News of his _life_ doesn't
> even leak!  It's not like CBS is gonna have a mobile unit
> staked outside the hospital for a deathwatch.  And if rumors
> of his death did leak, wouldn't they be treated as suspect
> embroiderings on the legend?


Read Don DeLillo's novel _Mao II_.  On the back cover is a comment from 
"Thomas Pynchon"  which adds a neat twist to the novel...


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Cogito ergo sum.
Cogito sumere potum alterum.
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Anne Dirkse
University of Coloradoat Boulder
dirkse at rintintin.colorado.edu