It has come to my attention...

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "Thomas Eckhardt" <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>

> "Respected Pynchon scholar" is an epitaph, no?

Yes, and it seems to me the phrase should be reserved for such funerary
purposes.

Thomas--are you also possibly \suggesting that we should wait for our poor
author to be dead awhile before subjecting him to scholarship?  That might
be unreasonable I guess.
        P.