Pynchon Musical Sale, Kirkpatrick

Henry Musikar scuffling at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 09:35:19 CDT 2009


"On The Simpsons, Sideshow Mel once popped up to second a comment by Thomas Pynchon, referring to him as “my fellow Cornell alumnus!”

I don’t know if Mel believes the theory, propounded three decades ago by a writer named John Calvin Batchelor, that “Pynchon” was simply a pseudonym for J.D. Salinger.

But in reading about that now-debunked controversy, I learned that Pynchon and America’s most prominent Luddite writer, Kirkpatrick Sale (who ends his speeches by literally smashing a computer), were Cornell classmates and co-wrote a musical there"

From: http://toddseavey.com/2009/03/16/kirkpatrick-sale-sideshow-mel/ 
News to me!  Anybody, perhaps a librarian, seen the script for the musical, or even seen mention of it elsewhere?

Henry Mu

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