funny

[Richard Romeo]

from:  http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/dummydown2/JU98-9.htm

MAN CLAIMING TO BE AUTHOR THOMAS PYNCHON APPEARS BUT PUBLISHER
               REFUSES TO PAY HIM

               Author, artist, non-conformist, and recluse Thomas Pynchon 
appeared Wednesday at his publishers office
               to demand back payment for his six novels written under his 
own name.

               Pynchon, who has the uncanny ability to both cloud men's 
minds so that they cannot see him, and to foul
               photo graphic negatives, insisted on payment but was thrown 
into the street by his publisher who maintains
               that Pynchon "may not be the real guy. In fact, there may not 
even be a Thomas Pynchon. And if there is,
               he writes a hideously contorted prose and has an identity 
problem." Pynchon has refused to be
               photographed or interviewed for years, as a canny sales 
tactic (it worked.ed.)  "I am reminded," said
               publishing lawyer Homer Stover on hearing of Pynchon's 
problems "of the story of the ten peckered weasel
               who out-smarted himself."

               A man claiming to be Pynchon later claimed to be Pynchon, but 
his claim was denied by the same lawyer
               who had earlier referred to a weasel when speaking of 
Pynchon. Pynchon ( if that's who he really was) then
               disappeared, while complaining that he had outsmarted 
himself, but wanted his money anyway.

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