Marianne Wiggins be damned, Pynchon galleys circulate

[Tore Rye Andersen]

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>Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:05:28 +0300 (EEST)
>From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
>Subject: RE: Marianne Wiggins be damned, Pynchon galleys circulate
>
>Marianne Wiggins wrote one of the most scathing reviews
>of M&D which she said compared really unfavorably with
>the first three novels. The Times, maybe?
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>
>Heikki
>

Oboy-oboy, I'd like to.... It does seem pretty mean and ungrateful, doesn't 
it? Marianne Wiggins used to be Salman Rushdie's wife before he ditched her 
for a younger model. In 1989, on March 12 to be exact, The New York Times 
Book Review ran the feature "Words for Salman Rushdie" - notes of support 
for Rushdie after the fatwa. Here's what a colleague called Thomas Pynchon 
wrote:

"Our thanks to you and to Marianne Wiggins [!!!] for recalling those of us 
who write to our duty as heretics, for reminding us again that power is as 
much our sworn enemy as unreason, for making us all look braver, wiser, more 
useful than we often think we are. We pray for your continuing good health, 
safety and lightness of spirit."

Ah well - our only consolation in the face of mean little comments like Mrs. 
Wiggins' must be that "Rocketman is above all that shit".

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