Homage and Imposture

[jbor]

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>From: Murthy Yenamandra <yenamand at cs.umn.edu>
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>> [...] 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.

Mm, interesting. I hadn't thought of it in quite those terms.  I had just
read Ron Rosenbaum's *NY Observer* review:

http://members.aol.com/tinasky/reviews/NY_Observer.html

The publication of Tinasky's letters as apocrpyncha annoyed me, but now I
realise that it is the critics and editors who were to blame for that.
Thanks for pointing it out.

But He Who Knows He Is knew who he was, and proved my point in the process.

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