Marianne Wiggins be damned, Pynchon galleys circulate

[Ya Sam]

Yeah, fickt nicht mit dem Raketenmensch!



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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
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>>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
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>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:
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>"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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