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[Paul Mackin]

On Jul 20, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Rcfchess at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 07/20/2006 9:17:25 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> jbor at bigpond.com writes:
> Does it occur to anyone else that someone out there really has it in
> for TRP, and is intent on doing as much damage to his reputation as
> possible with all this crap?
>
> Somehow I suspect that if they wanted to do that - for whatever  
> reason, which might be the grounds for more (and probably wrong)  
> speculation on our parts - they could come up with something a lot  
> worse than the blurb that appeared on Amazon.

If bad was wanted (for whatever reason) Pynchon could have produced  
something ARTISTICALLY bad (like the Eumaeus scene in Ulysses) but  
such would probably have worked at cross purposes to a book blurb.

Pynchon's normal modus operandi is NOT commerce.,


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