SHOCK & SHROUD

[Jules Siegel]

At 11:46 PM 04/30/97 -0400, doktor at primenet.com wrote:
>Jules writes:
>
>>I suggest that you compare Thomas Pynchon's descriptions of SHOCK and SHROUD
>>in V. with the radiation dummies manufactured by Alderson Research for the
>>Atomic Energy Commission in 1958-59. I gave Pynchon some of their press
>>materials and brochures when he visited me in New York in 1959.
>
>More info?  What did they say?
>
>--Jimmy

They showed pictures of clear plastic radiation dummies pretty much exactly
like the figures that Pynchon describes. There were descriptions of how they
were used and how they worked but that wasn't pertinent to what I remember
of V. I'd have to read that part of the book again and I don't feel like it.

Who was that jerk who made that stupid crack about doing my research for me
today? Was it the librarian at some college in Massachusetts? Maybe he can
check it all out. I answered his last insults privately and he sent me a
message threatening to report me to the FBI (or someone) if I tried to
communicate privately with him again.

Then we have your insulting message -- "Unethical Assets Manufacturing" --
with this charming item among other torrents of illogical abuse:

>Apparently bereft of ideas of his own, he appropriates the words of others
>to add flesh to these Frankenstein bones.  To quote Tom Leherer (in a
>fair-use manner):
>
>     "As the great Lobachevsky once said to me, 'Plagiarize, plagiarize,
>     plagiarize.  Only please to call it research.'

Still feel that way? 

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