(A.E.W.) Mason & (Jeane) Dixon (was CNN....)

[davemarc]

> From: Jules Siegel <jsiegel at mail.caribe.net.mx>
> 
> At 05:25 PM 06/7/97 -0400, KENNETH_HOUGHTON at dbna.com (KENNETH HOUGHTON)
wrote:
> >     And, as davemarc noted earlier, his "anonymity" ends just when his 
> >     massive, 175K-copy first printing book comes out.  Could it 
> >     be...Satan?  Could it be...coincidence?  Could it be...Holt's 
> >     publicity department scoring a coup?
> 
> Could it be that Jules Siegel predicted this in "Lineland?" I wrote: "I
> heard he's relaxed a bit on the privacy obsession. I wouldn't be
surprised
> to see some highly-laundered personal editorial coverage in connection
with
> his new book." This comment also appears in the pynchon-l archive for
> October, 1996.
> 
And in the issue of New City dated February 1, 1996, some ignoramus wrote
that "a small eruption of Pynchon-related news and rumors now suggests that
the Cal Ripken of media absenteeism might soon end his [fill in the dreaded
codeword] streak."

davemarc