> I seem to remember getting the whole Doony Glynn thing as a humor memo on > the office grapevine in about 1990 > are we sure DFW wrote that? He borrows stuff like that for his own purposes. See also his use (also in IJ) of the urban legend re burglers taking polaroids of themselves bent over w/ the homeowners tootbrush handles protruding from their bums, and so on.