ATD SPOILER pp. 173-174

[pynchonoid]

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> It may be an intepretive stretch (ducking, dodging,
> anticipating the flame-thrower), but this reader at
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> Ponghill, pp.173-174, recalls, somehow, the
> Unabomber
> and his letter bombs, his continued residence in
> jail
> and the letters he receives (and the missives he
> published while a fugitive from justice), and the
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> that Pynchon was somehow mixed up in it by
> suspicious
> FBI or Department of Justice types, however that
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> (Disclaimer: I happen to know the son of one of the
> Unabomber's victims, one who survived albeit
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Within the last couple of years I read a very
interesting book about the Unabomber, by some Harvard
guy, I forget the title and author, so that's why this
comes easily to mind, I guess.  Still, I think close
reading of this passage might support this notion,
we'll see...



 
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