Just an idea
jd
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Thu Jul 13 10:24:24 CDT 2006
In regards to that Salon article, to which NY Times article is it referring?
On 7/13/06, mikebailey at speakeasy.net <mikebailey at speakeasy.net> wrote:
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> > From: Ya Sam [mailto:takoitov at hotmail.com]
> > "Pynchon's correspondence surfaced after his former agent (and former
> > friend) Donadio sold them in 1984, for $45,000, to a collector named Carter
> > Burden. After Burden's death two years ago, his family donated his expansive
> > literary collection -- including Pynchon's letters -- to New York's Pierpont
> > Morgan Library".
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> > http://www.salon.com/media/1998/03/10media.html
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> fitting in view of the Pynchon family relationship to the house of Morgan?
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> >> >(specifically the scene involving the prostitute, a half-empty pack of
> > >> >cigarettes, and a slab of pork steak).
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> that reminds me of this porn book my wife and I used to like...never mind...
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> Pynchon goes insane and
> > >> >attempts to burn down the Guggenheim.
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> after doing all the thinking behind all the words in his books, I suspect he's probably one of the sanest people around... I always feel more mentally fit and often more calm after reading some Pynchon, and I don't think it's by comparison <g> but because of an inbuilt quality in the prose
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