P.'s Pop (was Re: Hoax?)

[Jules Siegel]

davemarc wrote:
> 
> At 12:17 PM 10/29/96 -0800, Jules wrote:
> >
> >Better, call Tom's father (I hope he's still around--really wonderful
> >man) and ask him if I exist.
> 
> I hate to break the news to Jules, but former Town of Oyster Bay supervisor
> Thomas R. Pynchon died of heart failure on July 21, 1995.
> 
> >From Newsday, 7/23/95:  "Speaking for my brother," said Judith Pynchon, "I
> hope that [his success] will not overshadow my father's accomplishments in
> his long and productive life."
> 
> davemarc

This brought tears to my eyes. He was really a great and wonderful man
and I cherish every moment that I spent in his company, as few as they
were.

Sometime I hate getting old, not because it brings me close r to my own
death, necessarily, but because more and more news like this arrives,
always unexpectedly, always shattering.
-- 
Jules Siegel http://www.caribe.net.mx/siegel/jsiegel.htm
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