TRP goes public!!!

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

Now that I have everybody's guaranteed and undevided attention 
["sorry" he says contritely:-] I still haven't heard from anybody re. 
the quote below. Could someone at least confirm that it is genuine, 
or should I stop looking for a source?

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Long long ago, on Tue, 14 Nov 1995 22:28:35 EST,  VVCP80A at prodigy.com 
(MR TOM J STANTON) wrote:

> Poets citing science (Frost, Moore, Stevens, etc.) are a long way
> off from poets using *science* as a methaphor or structure for their
> work. Most literature I've read ignores science, reviles it, or  stands 
> back to admire it like sculpture. And I don't accept that science is 
> so hard and massive that writers are excused from using it. 
>                                                                   Pynchon

Tom seems to be out of town or something. Does anybody else know where 
this quote, which sounds so _familiar_, comes from? I need the references 
for an article I'm writing - alas, the editors have standards and the 
quote is just too perfect to drop (Luddite, indeed!).

thnks mucho

hg
hag at iafrica.com