slaggin' pynchon pre-Nobel

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 10 05:57:05 CDT 2002


Sartre turned it down outright, Pasternak was more or
less made to decline it, Beckett's response was
something along the lines of, sorry, can't make it for
dinner, but if you'd be so kind as to send along the
check, but ... well, can imagine furtive communiques
>From the Office of Melanie Jackson ca. this time every
year, please, please, please, the only way to say no
is ... then again, I'm guessing Prof. I. Corey's
calendar's clear for Dec. 10th.  Okay, three minute
warning ...

> Now, it is quite possible that
> 
> 1) TRP doesn't want the prize and
> 2) even if he did, will never get it and
> 3) it's really no big deal for me as long as
> 4) they don't give it to DeLillo.

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