Jules and the CNN pix

[Doug Millison]

I still don't understand how any of us can know for sure that it was really
Pynchon who called CNN (how did CNN identify him over the phone?); or,
unless we've seen him relatively recently, how we can positively identify
him from a video clip (I wouldn't necessarily be able to identify somebody
I went to school with and last saw 30 or more years ago,  in a crowd scene
on TV).  It's also not inconceivable, as others have suggested, that
Pynchon is gradually coming out of seclusion; or that he is playing games
with the press; or that he is going along with a pre-conceived PR plan. It
is also not inconceivable that the CNN crew followed the wrong person,
perhaps a ringer working with Pynchon or on his behalf; it certainly
wouldn't be the first time that journalists have been wrong, or hoaxed.

Cordially,
Doug


At 1:31 PM 6/11/97, Tom Gorman wrote:
>Jules: Your position is certainly understandable; in fact I was surprised
>when you said you'd identify TRP in the first place. Just one other
>comment: a few people, including yourself just now, have in their
>comments about the CNN footage allowed the possibility that Pynchon is
>not in any of those street scenes at all--i.e., that CNN is participating in a
>hoax. I'd have to put that one down as far-fetched. And therefore he
>must either be the guy in the red cap or the balding guy wearing the
>gross jacket, as everyone has said. Though my heart inclines toward
>Red Cap, my head insists on Chrome Dome. But seriously: if anyone
>thinks TRP is not in any of the footage, I'd be interested in theories on
>why CNN would go along with a hoax. Not sure what they'd have to gain
>by it.  --Tom Gorman

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