Against the P. documentary

[jd]

Somehow, somewhere, Pynchon is sitting around laughing to himself
about how everyone believed him when he said he wasn't JD Salinger.

On 8/24/06, Anville Azote <anville.azote at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/24/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > cited from
> >
> > http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html
> >
> > [snip]
> > over-the-top fans who have their own fansites on the web & speculate – at
> > length – that since Pynchon & Lee Harvey Oswald were in Mexico at roughly
> > the same time in the 1950s, therefore Pynchon must be in hiding because of
> > what he knows about the assassination of JFK. This is accompanied with much
> > stock footage of Lee Harvey Oswald passing out "Hands Off Cuba" leaflets in
> > New Orleans & Jack Ruby gunning Oswald down on Nov. 23, 1963.
> >
>
> What fools.  EVERYBODY knows that Pynchon actually joined forces with
> Bill Watterson to found an elite crime-fighting team equipped with
> cardboard time machines and trained velociraptors, tasked to fight the
> twin forces of Fascism and Licenced Merchandise.  What, you think
> Watterson's retirement only two years before Mason & Dixon was a
> coincidence?
>
> -anv.
>
>