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[ckaratnytsky at nypl.org]

     A namesake of mine innocently asks:
     
     >Is there a Pynchon Newsgroup?
     
     Ooo, don't go there, Chris.  :-)  There is not currently a Pynchon 
     newsgroup, but it was the subject of one of our recent barroom brawls. 
      (Eh, Jester?)
     
     I am reading Don Quixote, Raymond Chandler, Peter Ackroyd's biography 
     of William Blake, GR (natch) and an article on page 3 of yesterday's 
     NYT in which my beloved brother, who claims not to be a Clinton 
     administration shill, is quoted on the subject of human rights.  
     (Shameless Karatnytsky family plug of the day.)     
     
     The cd player has been rotating the new Jimmy Scott, Louis Armstrong: 
     A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and The Essential Johnny 
     Cash.
     
     I have recently seen a charming stage version of A Child's Christmas 
     in Wales, an unbelievably powerful version of The Wasteland, adapted 
     for stage and starring Fiona Shaw, and David Hare's new play, 
     Skylight, with Michael Gambon.  
     
     How's that?
     
     Chris