Signed Pynchon - last chance

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

Collegiate, one of the serious West Side academies is a "Friends" 
School.....P may also have wanted to avoid the "social" academies 
like Dalton and others of its ilk, while benefitting from the academic 
rigor of a selective insititution.....


love,
cfa
> Jackson's attendance at a church affiliated school might at least be
> evidence that the Pyncher is not an old fashioned village-atheist-type
> antireligion zealot (if any evidence were need) but another factor is
> that many of the older more established (and incidently most
> prestigious, although I'm sure P is no snob) private schools in the
> eastern U.S. happen to be church affiliated. The two in Washington DC
> where the swells tend to go are respectively Quaker (Sidwell) and
> Episcopalian (St. Albans).  Only a tiny minority of attendees at these
> two places have any other association with these two religious
> organizations.
> 
> By the way, isn't  $25,000 an unlikely amount to pay for the signature
> of a living person? Of course 25 Gs aren't what they used to be.
> 
>                 P.
> 
> Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> > I'd trust the provenance of the copy from the school before
> > something on eBay, it's much easier to confirm from the school. That
> > Pynchon's son attended this church-affiliated school is beyond
> > question; Pynchon's name popped up in a school newsletter a couple
> > of years ago; I had a copy of the newsletter issue that mentioned
> > young Jackson's father as the author of the recently-published Mason
> > & Dixon, which I passed along to a Pynchon scholar. (I got the
> > newsletter from a person who was then researching NYC schools prior
> > to enrolling his own children in one; he and his wife were
> > considering the school that turned out to be Jackson's.)
> >
> > For those of you interested in Pynchon's biography and how it
> > intersects with his fiction, I think it's interesting to note that
> > he has had his son enrolled in a church-affiliated school.  In my
> > personal experience such a decision often reflects a parent's values
> > vis-a-vis the particular church that runs or has an affiliation with
> > the school. In the case of a celebrity parent like Pynchon, who
> > would presumably be able to get his child into any NYC private
> > school, including those with no church affiliation, I assume that
> > the church affiliation may have something to do with his choice of
> > this particular school.  Other factors might come into play, of
> > course.  But I can't imagine somebody with strong antipathies to
> > organized religion sending a young child to a school with a
> > significant religious affiliation.
>