Anybody post this yet?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Of course you can't find any info, the media is too
concerned with the subway series to care about the
disappearance of a state or a star [unless it is Jeff
Foxworthy (where, oh where, did he go?)].

--- Otto Sell <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> 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 ..." ...
> >
> >
> 
> 


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