The ongoing enigma of Trystero

[Robin Landseadel]

 From LA Times' "Jacket Copy" by Carolyn Kellogg:

Picking up a thread from Goolrick's article and interview, I wondered  
if I could use an online database of public records to see whether  
Pynchon's father was still around (turns out he died in 1995). The  
search brought me to a page to links for his immediate family, and  
when I tried to click through on Tom Jr.'s name -- that's what,  
Goolrick says, Pynchon's mother called him -- the page didn't load.

It was as if the universe simply couldn't deliver hard information  
about the author Thomas Pynchon. Or perhaps a clever cabal of  
programmers had done some scripting to make sure his complete  
anonymity was preserved. Either way, the not-loading Pynchon page is  
so Pynchonian that I won't bother to try the search again, lest the  
results be more routine the next time around.



http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/06/revisiting-a-decadesold-search-for-thomas-pynchon.html