1968 Writers and Editors War Tax Protest

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 21/04/2006:

> The TRP and War Tax Protest issue may well have surfaced at several
> points in the history of this list, but oldtimers remember old things:
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9504&msg=1129&sort=thread
> Poor Harlan.
>
> As to the other signatories, let us not forget the late Faith Sale who
> copyedited the manuscript of GR.
>
>
> Heikki

Thanks. Not sure how much stock to put into the Harlan Ellison anecdote 
either, but here's what looks like the primary reference from that 
month:

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9504&msg=1113&sort=thread

(Slabs of '95 and '96 are the only gaps in my back reading of the 
list-archives, and I can't recall seeing mention of it in any of the 
print-based criticism -- though it might well be there and just not 
have registered -- so it has been a new one on me.)

The ad also appeared in the _New York Post_ (on 30 Jan 1968) and 
_Ramparts_ (not sure of the date or issue, but imagine it would be the 
same date, or the closest issue date). I gather it was a sort of 
blanket campaign.

Wonder why he didn't put his name to one of those writers and artists' 
petitions against American military intervention in Iraq after 9/11? 
Particularly now that his name does mean a whole lot more than it would 
have back in '68.

best