NP-Tell me this doesn't read like a story written by DeLillo

[Mark Kohut]

yes. Which one?

--- On Fri, 2/19/10, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: NP-Tell me this doesn't read like a story written by DeLillo
> To: "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 8:27 PM
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/us/20crash.html?hp
> “I never saw Joe
> angry about anything,” said Billy Eli, a honkytonk
> bandleader who played with Mr. Stack for about three years.
> “He was just a middle-of-the-road kind of
> dude.”
> 
> Mr. Stack also
> assailed big business, politicians and tax policies that
> limited the entrepreneurial prospects of computer software
> engineers.
> 
> On arrival in this
> growing capital city, best known for its music scene, its
> technology booms and the tension between the two, Mr. Stack
> fit a certain local stereotype, the musician-technophile
> crossover. At home he hunkered in front of a computer with
> two screens, relatives said, and at gigs he mingled without
> much visible anxiety.
> 
> Mr. Stack married
> the former Sheryl Housh, a divorced piano instructor who had
> once spent four years with The Way International, widely
> regarded as a religious cult.
> 
> Together they lived
> in a two-story red brick house in North Austin, making
> little impression on neighbors.
> 
> “His name never
> came up,” said Jack Lillis, an airport attendant.
> “He’s one of many who rent hangar space
> here.”
> 
> He told few besides
> his wife of a simmering anger for which, he wrote, “there
> isn’t enough therapy in the world.”
>