Anybody post this yet?

[Judith A. Panetta]

Yes...saw it before. But gee, the whole thing sounds like a
hoax Or am I just cynical? Anyone have the scuttlebut?

Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> Sorry if this had been posted already.  If so, I missed it.
> Unbelivably, I also missed it in last week's Onion, and we get the free
> print ed. here an' ev'rythin'.  From "CNN Still Releasing News Piled Up
> during Elian Gonzalez Saga," The Onion, 11 October 2000:
> 
>     Reclusive novelist Thomas Pynchon, who came out of hiding on May 17
> to speak out on some sort of impending crisis, breaking more than 20
> years of media silence, expressed hope that his segment will eventually
> reach the airwaves.
> 
>       "Hello? It's me, Thomas Pynchon," Pynchon said. "I have J.D.
> Salinger here with me, too. We're here trying to raise awareness of this
> profoundly serious crisis. Is anybody listening?"
> 
>       Those interested, Lang said, can learn what Pynchon had to say
> during CNN coverage of the May 17 announcement, slated to air sometime
> around Christmas.
> 
> Complete text @:
> http://www.theonion.com/onion3636/cnn_news_piled_up.html.  See?  We've
> been telling you, Pynchon, politics.  "Those who know ..." ...
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