Top 10 Most Reclusive Celebrities
Josiah Miller
josiahthemessiah at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 3 13:39:41 CDT 2009
I see Dave Chappelle in Yellow Springs all the time
...I also see Proust every night...
Josiah
--- On Wed, 6/3/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Top 10 Most Reclusive Celebrities
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 1:48 PM
> Top 10 Most Reclusive Celebrities
> Vanishing Act
> * 8 of 10
>
> Thomas Pynchon
>
> Even among reclusive novelists, Thomas Pynchon reigns
> anonymously
> supreme. Almost nothing is known about the author of some
> of the most
> seminal, mysterious and generally difficult works of 20th
> century
> fiction, and the novelist would like to keep it that way.
> Pynchon has
> avoided nearly all media since the 1963 publication of his
> first book,
> V., and only a few known photos of him exist. When his 1973
> novel
> Gravity's Rainbow won the National Book Award, Pynchon had
> someone
> else accept on his behalf. He has denied all publicity
> requests but
> one: in 2004, he agreed to appear on The Simpsons. Pynchon
> even lent
> his own voice to his character, which was drawn with a bag
> over its
> head
>
> http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1902376_1902378_1902438,00.html
>
> Complete List
> Vanishing Act
>
> * J.D. Salinger
> * Howard Hughes
> * Greta Garbo
> * Harper Lee
> * Emily Dickinson
> * Syd Barrett
> * Bill Watterson
> * Thomas Pynchon
> * Dave Chappelle
> * Marcel Proust
>
> http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1902376,00.html
>
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