Wikipedia dangers

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Kudos to whoever wrote it!

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>From: "Gordon, Alex" <alex.gordon at abbeyroad.com>

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>(I don't know who wrote it, but...)
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>Well, this is the story all about how        
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>I turned the American novel upside down          
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>And I'd like to take a minute from this universal schism               
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>to tell you how I invented literary post-modernism       
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>In Glen Clove, Long Island, born and raised       
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>At Cornell University is where I spent my college days,               
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>Learnin' physics and sailin', mostly goofin' off    
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>Occasionally taking classes taught by Nabokov                
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>When the spectre of the government, which was up to bad shit,                
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>Started making trouble in my social clique,        
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>They crashed my best friend's bike and I went AWOL     
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>And said "It's time to explore the nature of humanity's desire for control!"
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>I wrote Gravity's Rainbow, and when it was released,    
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>Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of the New York Times claimed that the traditional structure of the metanarrative was deceased!
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>If anything, secrecy was the souce of my élan, 
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>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
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>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
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>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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