eGad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Why would TRP choose to represent his bad self to the world as some madman, ranting with a paperbag over his head? Duh ya think that meebee he'd be indulging in a little bit of literary pranksterism, a 'la Proferror Irwin Corey, by knowingly selecting a distrurbingly awful extract from ATM? Do ya think that he just might be putting us on?

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From: "Spencer T. Campbell" <spencer.t.campbell2 at gmail.com>
> Why would the Penguin Press catalog feature an intentionally dreadful
> novel-within-a-novel excerpt as a representative advertisement?
> 
> On 8/4/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > This I'd be tempted to put money on, even ...
> >
> > --- Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > It might be novel-within-a-novel, like "Ghastly Fop"
> > > in Mason & Dixon.
> >
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