Bleeding Edge book trailer: SPIEGEL says the stooge is Pynchon

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

This week's edition of news magazine 'Der Spiegel' has a note on Pynchon 
in the rubric 'Personalien' (p. 152). With reference to his voice 
appearances at 'The Simpsons', they go for the thesis ("obviously" and 
"it seems" are the words they're using) that the stooge you can hear in 
the Bleeding Edge book trailer (0.49-0.51, 3.35-3.38, 3.43-3.45) is 
actually Pynchon ... Well, I have no idea how they came on it, but 
having just listened again to one Simpsons cameo as well as to the IV 
book trailer (actually these two voices do not resemble each other very 
much), I don't think that it is correct. Am I wrong or has Europe's 
biggest news magazine fallen victim to a hoax?


"Thomas Pynchon, 76, Schriftsteller, ist der große Unbekannte der 
amerikanischen Literatur. (...) Nun ist seine Stimme offenbar erneut 
öffentlich zu hören. (...) Dazwischen stellt eine Frage Stimmen aus dem 
Off --- es scheint die von Pynchon zu sein." ('Der Spiegel', 37/2013, p. 
152)


Simpsons cameo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR0588DtHJA

Inherent Vice book trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2daNrsfwDgY

Bleeding Edge book trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA0yAcfnuuI