Pynchon Musical Sale, Kirkpatrick
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 16:55:40 CDT 2009
thought I saw it posted on this list in fall of 2005...could be mistaken
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> "On The Simpsons, Sideshow Mel once popped up to second a comment by Thomas Pynchon, referring to him as “my fellow Cornell alumnus!”
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> 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.
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> 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"
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> 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?
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> Henry Mu
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> KCUF, 128 Kb/s on Shoutcast Unlimited: http://tinyurl.com/kcuf-on-shoutcast-limited/ to play, http://www.urdomain.us/playing.html to see what's playing, and now available on RECIVA Internet-Radio receivers, http://tinyurl.com/kcuf-on-reciva
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> KCUF can now be listened to using a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget:
> http://gallery.live.com/results.aspx?bt=1&q=KCUF
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