Pynchon and Penguin Perplex Press

[David Casseres]

No, actually Pynchon and Paris would pass through each other like
neutrinos in the night, with no interaction whatsoever.

On 9/18/06, Anville Azote <anville.azote at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/18/06, John Carvill <JCarvill at algsoftware.com> wrote:
> > Funny little piece on ATD, from Oyster Bay online paper 'The
> > Northender'.
> >
> > ...Pynchon has the public eagerly waiting to see what he'll do next.
> > Perhaps he'll replace Nicole Ritchie as Paris Hilton's counterpart on
> > "The Simple Life".
> >
> > http://www.northender.com/northend_news_details.jsp?id=434
> >
>
> "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
>
> I found this via Lexis-Nexis and stuck it into the Wikipedia article
> on TRP, way back when. . . .
>
> -A. A.
>