Homage and Imposture

[Murthy Yenamandra]

jbor writes:
> [...] but there is something quite sad -- pathological even --
> when apparently intelligent people overtly *pretend to be* someone else as,
> say, that Wanda Tinasky character for example. Quite quite sad.

Do you mean intelligent people pretending to be Wanda Tinasky? 'Cause I
can't think of any place where Wanda pretended to be anybody else, least
of all to be Thomas Pynchon. That's a rap that other people put on Wanda.

Murthy

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Murthy Yenamandra                  mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
Dept of Computer Science           University of Minnesota
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