NP Young Germans

[Dave Monroe]

E.g. ...

"Some of his fans wonder if he really exists or might
really be several people writing under a pseudonym.
He's a popular topic in cyberspace and, until the
arrest of Theodore Kaczynski, was even supposed by
some to be the elusive Unabomber."

http://cgi.cnn.com/US/9706/05/pynchon/

   "This summer, the Internet and the literary world
met head on in two splashy, strange events worthy of
the famous names involved. They may not have been the
stuff of front pages or network newscasts, but these
separate events (involving novelists Kurt Vonnegut and
Thomas Pynchon, forged e-mails, a London newspaper and
a much-desired photograph) portray in neon-colored
letters the provocative powers of technology and its
effects on the written word.
   "The Pynchon incident came first. A London
newspaper used an Internet site to track down the
great writer's New York address. Living in carefully
kept seclusion, Pynchon's life has remained as elusive
and puzzling as his intricate, dizzying novels. But
this year's success of his novel 'Mason & Dixon'
brought Pynchon's work to widespread attention.
Address in hand, the London photographers snapped
pictures of Pynchon as he escorted his young son to
school one morning - the first confirmed photographs
of the writer since his college days at Cornell in the
1950s.

[...]

"... When Pynchon's seclusion was suddenly shattered,
if only briefly, a sense of his distance and power
went with it.
   "The incident was given an additional twist of
irony by Pynchon's work. He is iconoclastic, populist
and liberal. For a while, he was rumored to be the
Unabomber. In a New York Times piece from 1984 titled
'Is it OK to be a Luddite?' Pynchon discusses, among
other things, the vanishing lines between literature
and technology...."

http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1997/sep/09-03-97/edit/edit4.html

--- "S.R. Prozak" <prozak at post.com> wrote:
> 
> I think Ted Kaczynski and Thomas Pynchon might have
> more in common than most members (sheep) of this
> list would like to admit.

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