The hacker we call Bob

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< Pynchon, after all, be immune to the "kiss-and-tell" syndrome that 
afflicts celebrities in general, whether they are the ones doing the kissing or 
telling or both. The fact that we haven't seen this sort of thing suggests, to me 
at least, that Pynchon may have spent his time writing and reading instead of 
hanging out with the kinds of celebrities whose memoirs are of interest to the 
Boomer crowd.  >>

There may be no celebrity kiss and tell around Pynchon because, to put it 
charitibly, he's not very good looking.