A Well Placed 'Please'

John Bailey sundayjb at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 23:48:06 CDT 2009


Well I'll be. It's true, a well-placed please can open some doors.

My copy of IV is in the mail.

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 9:22 AM, rich<richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Green Apple is a fine bookstore--many an afternoon spent wandering
> around there w/ Richmond friends
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> and the bars are nearby when u got thirsty
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> p.s.  blog provides the name of a character in IV so beware
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> and the bars are nearby when u got thirsty
> and the bars
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> 2009/6/26 Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>:
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>> "Last month I had only heard rumors of a new Thomas Pynchonnovel due to be published at the end of summer, but then after a well-placed 'please' to the visiting Penguin sales representative, here I am, 20 pages down the darkly psychedelic path of Inherent Vice. It's quite a departure for Pynchon, and I'm thrilled to be one of the first folks in San Francisco to read this highly anticipated novel!"
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>> http://thegreenapplecore.blogspot.com/2009/06/whats-that-in-woods.html
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>> You don't really need to be a literary magazine reviewer or a translator!
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