Wikipedia dangers

[Gordon, Alex]

(I don't know who wrote it, but...)

 
Well, this is the story all about how        

I turned the American novel upside down          

And I'd like to take a minute from this universal schism               

to tell you how I invented literary post-modernism       

In Glen Clove, Long Island, born and raised       

At Cornell University is where I spent my college days,               

Learnin' physics and sailin', mostly goofin' off    

Occasionally taking classes taught by Nabokov                

When the spectre of the government, which was up to bad shit,                

Started making trouble in my social clique,        

They crashed my best friend's bike and I went AWOL     

And said "It's time to explore the nature of humanity's desire for control!"

I wrote Gravity's Rainbow, and when it was released,    

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of the New York Times claimed that the traditional structure of the metanarrative was deceased!

If anything, secrecy was the souce of my élan, 

but I thought, "Nah, f-forget it! Fickt nicht mit Rocketman!"


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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of John BAILEY
Sent: 01 May 2007 03:20
To: Daniel Julius
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: Wikipedia dangers


Is that true? Lord, does anyone have a copy?

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From: Daniel Julius [mailto:daniel.julius at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:51 AM

P.S.  Didnt someone edit the Pynchon wiki page some time ago to include a version of his biography 'sung' to the tune of the theme song of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?!?!  ("Now this is a story all about how/my life got flipped, turned upside down, u.s.w.)  Fucking amazing; if it was anyone on this list, fess up please, I want to buy you a shot or somethin


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