The ongoing enigma of Trystero

[rich]

anyone who has access to Lexis/Nexis, e.g. can easily find out TRP's
address, former addresses, the first 5 numbers of his social, etc.
etc.

we're all there

welcome to the machine

On 6/18/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>  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
>