1968 Writers and Editors War Tax Protest

[jbor at bigpond.com]

>> Other signatories included M.F. Beal, Candida Donadio, "J. Kirk Sale"
>> (i.e. Kirkpatrick) and Faith Sale (wife?). The ad is headed up by a
>> longish excerpt from Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience' (1849), denouncing
>> American involvement in the Mexican War.

On 19/04/2006:

> This is the same J. K. Sale who theorized that the line in the
> "Whitechapel" version of _A Courier's Tragedy_ which goes "This tryst
> or odious awry, O Niccolo" is really a pun on "This trystero dies
> irae. . . ."  (TCL49 pp. 81--2).

And "M.F. Beal" is one of those who believes in a "form of mineral 
consciousness" in GR (612). Pynchon had/has written blurbs for books by 
both Beal and Sale, and co-drafted that silly 'Minstral Island' 
libretto/treatment with Sale.

And I believe that Sale was one of the people behind the 1968 "Writers 
and Editors Tax Protest" (along with Gloria Steinem and Gore Vidal, 
though Vidal's name isn't on the NYRB list.)

Hadn't seen it noted here before, so after it cropped up on the 
Wikipedia Pynchon page I checked it out. There's so little concrete 
stuff about him during that time it's nice to find any morsel, however 
small.

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