TRP Mentioned in "Dear Annie" Advice Column

[Joe Allonby]

It's all planted to stir up publicity for the new novel.  I smell
conspiracy.

On 7/28/06, K. Michael Babcock <aesova at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  "DEAR ANNIE: You recently said one of the first uses of the word
> "callipygian" was by Thomas Pynchon in his book "Gravity's Rainbow." I
> remembered seeing the word as a kid, so I did some research in my Oxford
> English Dictionary and found that the word was used at least as early as the
> 1640s by Thomas Browne. Since Pynchon's book came out in the 1970s, you were
> just three centuries off.
>
> - D.W.M.
>
> DEAR D.W.M.: Thanks for the correction. My, how time flies."
>
> http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/entertainment/ci_4094278
> http://tinyurl.com/m3vmv
>
>
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