MDMD(11): The Jenkin's Ear Museum

[Tyrone Mullet]

I picked up a copy cheap years ago during or shortly after the last MDMD.  I 
hadn’t read it at the time, and when I asked about it on this list no one 
responded.  Good luck stirring up interest this time.  Maybe you can tie it 
into the terrorists or something.

I think it’s clear that the book is, as you put it, faux.  I also think it’s 
clear that Pynchon read it in preparation for M&D.

     Tyrone "Steve Maas" Mullet

Dave Monroe wrote:
>Apparently, I'm the only patron to have checked this
>out in its fifty years here.  From Odell Shepard and
>Willard Shepard, Jenkins' Ear: A Narrative Attributed
>to Horace Walpole, Esq. (New York: Macmillan, 1951),
>"To Whom it May Concern," pp. v-xiv ...
[snip excerpts]
>But, so far as I can tell, Walpole/Cole/Shepard and
>Shepard's Jenkins' Ear IS a faux found manuscript



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