Unabomber. Again.

Peter Trachtenberg tberg at echonyc.com
Wed Sep 20 09:32:33 CDT 1995


A month ago I posted a facetious hypothesis on my local BBS that Pynchon 
actually WAS the Unabomer! The New York Press had printed an article 
noting the Bomer's (or Bomber's) obsession with wood and had posited that 
he was a former lit major--possibly a Joyce scholar. It seemed to me that 
Pynchon was one of the few contemporary writers conversant in both 
literature and technology, and that the Unabomer suggested nothing so 
much as one of his characters come to life. So it's interesting to see 
that others also see correspondences.




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