We're different- Re: In The Zone (getting M&D poster)

[Brett Coley]

Dale says:

> This is a really wierd phenomenon that I don't yet understand.  I admit in
> the Preface to Lineland that before Jules approached me, I didn't know who
> the hell TRP was.  (Of course, I've since become interested in reading
> Pynchon, but have only make it through COL49 so far.) The name sounded
> vaugely familiar, but I just couldn't place it.  I can't think of any other
> authors who can have a 200,000 copy first print run for whom this could
> possibly be the case -- I at least know they're an author, even if I
> haven't read them.

Well, I think we'll be able to pick up a great deal on some of the
leftover 200,000, that seems a bit ridiculous to me, but who knows?

I'm surprised you find lots of folks that haven't heard of TRP, he seems
to be all over: the web, Buckaroo Bonzai, even some TV show I've heard,
and don't forget the MST3K skit.  Hey, I can hardly go to
http://www.suck.com without seeing some Pynchon ref nearly daily.
Still, he's hardly a John Updike on the cathode ray scope of public
fame.

Regards,
Brett