Pynchon materials at Ransom Center

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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this unpublished gem particularly exceptional.

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>> I also wonder whether the Minstral Island musical is somehow part of
>> what Mr. Weisenburger alluded to in his sketch that mentioned Pynchon's
>> Ford Fdn application in 1959 and his foray into writing a musical.