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In a message dated 97-03-25 23:15:04 EST, dcpalmer at phoenix.Princeton.EDU
(Dexter C. Palmer) writes:

<< Piuma Road, site of the return address on the
 > mysterious sheet of MGM letterhead that bore TRP's putative response to
John
 > Calvin Batchelor's "Pynchon Is Salinger" expose? The possibilities are
 > limitless. Just don't go looking for any Orpheus Theaters on Melrose.
Believe
 
 <snip>
 
 What "putative response" is this? I've never heard this story. If it's a
 joke, let me in on it; if not, please tell me (and the list) where to get
 more info.
 
 					--Dexter Palmer >>

No joke, Dexter. I can't lay hands on it just at the moment, but there was a
brief one-page note duplicated alongside part 2 of Batchelor's Soho News
article. The letterhead was MGM, the return address somewhere on Piuma Road
(a twisty two-lane blacktop in the Santa Monica Mtns. above Malibu), and the
contents something along the lines of "Nice try, but no cigar." Signature was
T or Tom or Thomas, P. or Pynchon, I forget. Almost more interesting if it's
a forgery, since who at the studio would bother? If anyone knows more, please
enlighten me and Dexter both.

Best,
David