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[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Toby G Levy wrote:
> Rumors were thick that Pynchon was deep into alcoholism

I don't think the Introduction betrays shaky hands. (Its vices
are quite similar to those of his short stories and prose in
general). Anyway, a major apocryphal piece in this respect is

Field, Billy, "The Writer Who Came to Chaplin's Place,"
_Black Warrior Review_ 15.2, 162-163



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