Pynchon and Penguin Perplex Press

[Darius Kazemi]

Holy crap, it's true:

http://sushipop.net/sushiblog/archives/000206.php

-Darius

On 9/18/06, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> On the crap TV show, The OC (my daughter insisted she was only watching it
> because her friends watch it -- not much of a defense), there was an episode
> where Paris Hilton, playing herself, says she has to leave a party early
> because she needs to work on her doctoral thesis on Magical Realism in the
> works of Thomas Pynchon (or something like that).  Someone on the writing
> staff has a sense of humor, anyway.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>
> >Sent: Sep 18, 2006 4:24 PM
> >To: anville.azote at gmail.com, JCarvill at algsoftware.com
> >Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: Re: Pynchon and Penguin Perplex Press
> >
> >
> >>"Thomas Pynchon simply chooses not to be a public figure, an attitude
> >>that resonates on a frequency so out of phase with that of the
> >>prevailing culture that if Pynchon and Paris Hilton were ever to meet
> >>--- the circumstances, I admit, are beyond imagining --- the resulting
> >>matter/antimatter explosion would vaporize everything from here to Tau
> >>Ceti IV."
> >>---Arthur Salm
> >
> >Antimatter, hmm., that's too generous a metaphor for Paris Hilton.
> >
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