Harvard Law Review cites Pynchon

[jbor at bigpond.com]

A "Note" in a recent issue of the _Harvard Law Review_ refers to 
_Vineland_ in its concluding paragraphs (pdf available):

'The Impermeable Life: Unsolicited Communications in the Marketplace of 
Ideas'. _Harvard Law Review_ 118.4, Feb. 2005, pp. 1314-1338.

Abstract:	
Focuses on the allowance and protection of unsolicited communications 
as a safeguard for what is termed as the central constitutional goal of 
creating a deliberative democracy. Need for persons to be exposed to 
unsolicited communications; idea behind a private space; steps that 
should be taken to preserve the role of unsolicited communications in a 
democracy.

While it's only a brief reference, a couple of paragraphs in total, and 
it inaccurately describes Zoyd as "a former '60s activist", I'd say 
it's pretty unusual to see a literary text cited as a precedent amongst 
all the other legal ones in this particular journal. The topic of the 
exposition is quite interesting too.

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