p-related question

[Otto]

Do you mean this?

Professor Irwin Corey Accepts the National Book Award for Thomas Pynchon
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York Thursday, April 18, 1974

"However...I accept this financial stipulation-ah-stipend in behalf of
Richard Python for the great contribution which to quote from some of the
missiles which he has contributed... Today we must all be aware that
protocol takes precedence over procedure. However you say-WHAT THE-what does
this mean...in relation to the tabulation whereby we must once again realize
that the great fiction story is now being rehearsed before our very eyes, in
the Nixon administration...indicating that only an American writer can
receive...the award for fiction, unlike Solzinitski whose fiction does not
hold water."
http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/corey.htm

http://www.nypress.com/14/45/news&columns/feature.cfm

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: <barbara100 at jps.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:45 PM
Subject: p-related question


> i also mentioned some
> sort of acceptance speech that he made that i'm sure i heard about here.
> the quote was even on quail's web site at one time, and rather profound as
i
> remember, something to do with the nature of power, i think.  so my
> boyfriend asks, well if he made a speech at an awards ceremony (or
whatever
> it was) how come somebody didn't snap a picture of him?
>
> so how come?  was it not an actual speech? or maybe he wrote it and
somebody
> else read it? is that old navy picture really the last the public has seen
> of him?
>
> barbara
>

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