Anybody post this yet?

[Otto Sell]

Jeremy had posted it on October 11 - but I'm still unsure if it is some kind
of hoax. I have no confirmation yet that Alpha Centauri and South Carolina
really have disappeared. I spent some online-time for research but found
nothing.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>; <django at eexcpc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 5:53 PM
Subject: Anybody post this yet?


> 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 ..." ...
>
>