Pynchon Mamuscript at U Texas Ransom Center

[Richard Romeo]

Thomas Pynchon
The manuscript for an unproduced musical called Minstral Island by
Pynchon and Kirkpatrick Sale. Early notes, outlines, and drafts for the
1958 collaboration between Pynchon and Sale which explores the year 1998
when IBM dominates the world and artists (including musicians,
sailmakers, and prostitutes) are pariahs who have yet to be assigned
roles in the new world order. Pynchon collaborated on the manuscript
with Sale in 1958, prior to the publication of Pynchon's first novel, V.
Kirkpatrick Sale has written extensively on the political, economic,
sociological, and environmental impacts of technology, even going so far
as to reconstitute the term Luddite to describe a contemporary movement
that is skeptical of uncontrolled technological advance. Pynchon
manuscripts are notoriously rare, which makes this unpublished gem
particularly exceptional.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/news/newsletters/2002/summer/11.html

Haven't heard about this--has anyone else?

Rich