Sorta P

[Joe Allonby]

I'll go along with that.

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I do not think Hitch is a liar no matter how narcissistically full he might
> be........but,
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> whether that's true,
> I do not think he could get away with lying about that.......mutual friend (to
> him and Pynchon)
> Ian McEwan would know it was a lie.....others too perhaps..............
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> And TRP's relationship to the State, any state, might lead him to make this
> call.........
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> We might all agree he would hate any censorship of any kind, yes?
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> To: "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sat, July 31, 2010 9:12:36 PM
> Subject: Sorta P
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> I'm about 40% through Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22. He relates an
> incident when Thomas Pynchon called him out of the blue to discuss the
> state censorship of Larry Kramer's "Faggots".
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> Any thought on the veracity of this?
>
> Despite his championing of rational thought over superstitious
> nonsense, I'm starting to find Hitchens to be really fucking full of
> himself and in need of an ass-kicking. But that might just be the
> American in me.
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