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[Mitchell R Coffey]

What were a few of these factual errors you mention?


Mitchell Coffey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Bob Norton" <rnorton at unm.edu> at Internet
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 7:10 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org at INTERNET
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> Yeah, I read it. Wish I hadn't. It was offensive, snotty,
> condescending and
> filled with serious factual errors that ten minutes of
> halfassed research
> would have revealed. In other words, the archtypical Salon article.
>
> As a long time dulcimer player I have a debt to Dick Fariña.
> I miss him
> for a lot of reasons, musical and literary, but right now I
> miss him most
> of all because if he were still among us this two-bit scribbler, David
> Bowman, would be picking his teeth out of his turds for a week.
>
> >From: "Derek C. Maus" <dmaus at email.unc.edu>
> >Subject: Anybody else read Salon yet today?
> >
> >From an article about a forthcoming release of Richard and
> Mimi Farina's
> >music
> (http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/1999/> 10/13/farina/index.html)
>
> >
> >"As for Farina's connection with Pynchon, the latter
> dedicated "Gravity's
> >Rainbow" to his dead friend. Reportedly a double biography
> of Farina and
> >Dylan is in the works that documents a romance between Pynchon and
> >Farina's widow. As for Mimi herself, she's made several folk
> records over
> >the past 30 years, but none is worth finding.  Together,
> however, they had
> >something that still reverberates, 33 years after his death."
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