"Fire the Bastards!"

andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Wed Jun 4 18:10:00 CDT 1997


Dexter C. Palmer writes:
> 	In the introduction to the Penguin edition of *The Recognitions,*
> William Gass (not Gaddis) says that "Fire the Bastards" is written under a
> pseudonym. Anybody around here know who the culprit is? Could it be Gaddis
> (not Gass) himself?

Don't want to get anyone too paranoid but it's pretty obvious that
Jack Green is actually Thomas Ruggles Pynchon.


Andrew Dinn
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And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
To the rushing water speak:  I am.



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