Published Pynchon photos

[David Payne]

Thanks, Mark! The co-author is listening in. I think he just joined the Pynchon L a day or two ago. He's actually the person who turned me on to Pynchon.

You know, it's funny that we also mentioned the appearance on the Simpsons, but until I read your comment it didn't occur to me that if Pynchon is in these photos, he's in costume, just as he was on the Simpsons ... already in the habit of disguising himself even before he was well known.

The Cbarl name is funny, and I'm pretty sure it was picked up from a typo in the Cornell Sun about a month before the dueling article was written. The typo was in the byline - an article by a guy named Carl was misappropriated to Cbarl. 

All of the names in the piece are ridiculous. "Guy du Puy" made me laugh. Is "Puy" pronounced "Pie", i.e., rhyming with Guy?

I honestly just don't know about that letter to the editor. I like the possible anti-Nixonness connection you mentioned. I guess that the most definitive remark I could make is that it wouldn't surprise me if Pynchon wrote it. And I confess that that's one weasily statement, but that's kind of where it stands until someone can take it further.

Mark, have you ever heard anything about Faith Apfelbaum Sale's involvement in the protest of May, 1958? 

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> On Feb 10, 2013, Mark Kohut wrote:
> 
> To: All Who Worked on this: 
> 
> A very great Thanks to all for the work, the detail, the careful 
> thinking and concern and fun of presenting all this. I'll offer the 
> rationale that Pynchon knew this fun stuff was/could be public, since 
> it WAS to be semi-public and he hid himself as in his Simpsons' 
> appearance ( if it were his 'real' self in public, I suggest he would 
> not have been part--and he must have had chances to be " in public" in 
> some ways then (and later) and it is almost metaphysically different 
> from Pynchon and his righteous belief in privacy. A belief I think we 
> should support since he wants it and is entitled to it. 
> 
> Anyway, to me, that letter from Dr Ivan Cbarl (almost a Pynchonian name 
> if pronounceable) seems like it could easily be a prosaic version of 
> Pynchon's prose. [sic]. I was especially hit with his stylistic trope 
> of listing those four Presidents the way he did..".Hoover, Taft, Dewey 
> and President Eisenhower" remind me of his lawyer lists.....in the 
> works... 
> and of course his anti-Nixonness even this early. 
> 
> Thanks again. 
> 
> Sent from my iPad 
> 
> On Feb 10, 2013, at 12:03 AM, David Payne 
> <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com<mailto:dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>> wrote: 
> 
> 
> We copied the pictures into our write up: 
> http://lawsofsilence.blogspot.com/2013/02/start-of-duel-buried-in-sun_9.html