Wanda Tinasky

[eurydice]

Proverbs for paranoids #99: You can only have faith that it was a denial

>You mean I can't have faith in his denial?
>
>[Shuffling off, head down, disillusioned.]  ;)
>
>Miriam
>************************************************
>Miriam Hardin
>Doctoral Candidate, Teaching Fellow
>English Department, Lehigh University
>mih5 at lehigh.edu
>http://www.lehigh.edu/~mih5/mih5.html
>-----Original Message-----
>From: eurydice <eurydice at cruzio.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Cc: mih5 at Lehigh.EDU <mih5 at Lehigh.EDU>; dwbarker at eden.rutgers.edu
><dwbarker at eden.rutgers.edu>
>Date: Sunday, January 17, 1999 1:21 PM
>Subject: Re: Wanda Tinasky
>
>
>>By the way, as way of disclaimer, I have no idea whether the drafts of
>>Vineland that I saw were genuine, or whether the letters were indeed those
>>that were subsequently published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser during
>>the period in question. All I can say is that I used to meet with a tall,
>>gray gentleman in Mary's Place from time to time, and this gentleman always
>>had information regarding TP that seemed prescient, shall we say. He only
>>identified himself as "Tyrone," swearing that his parents had been Eugene
>>O'Neill fanatics. But he did have material that sure looked like what
>>Vineland turned out to be, and read me various eclectic letters that he
>>said were being sent to a paper called the Anderson Valley Advertiser. In
>>retrospect, I can only assume that I was the victim of a massive hoax;  but
>>it smells like rotten salmon to me...
>>>
>>>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>>From: eurydice at cruzio.com (eurydice)
>>>Subject: Re: Wanda Tinasky
>>>Cc: "Miriam Hardin" <mih5 at Lehigh.EDU>, dwbarker at eden.rutgers.edu
>>>Bcc:
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>>>Wanda is Pynchon. I remember talking to a very special (no names please)
>>>informant in Mary's Place, on Shattuck in Berkeley ( a great place for a
>>>burger), and he showed me several (at that point unposted) letters to the
>>>Anderson Valley Advertiser, together with some early drafts of Vineland...
>>>
>>