Today, in a used bookstore in downtown Pittsburgh,

[Jacob Carey]

Did you direct him to the mailing list, he may already be here.


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Where I had just met the owner to whom I had offered many of my books, I
> was
> Introduced to a young city messenger who is also a Pynchon fanboy. I spoke
> of
> the NY city messenger in BLEEDING EDGE--the bike messenger, he nodded.
> And we talked of the books.
>
> Andrew Carnegie started as a messenger in olde downtown Pittsburgh, but he
> read no fiction.
> He occasionally got tickets to plays from companies. Over a hundred years
> later, Carnegie
> became a probable component of Scarsdale Vibe in AGAINST THE DAY.
>
> When Pynchon readers meet, it is like Trystero communication.
>
> Sent from my iPad-
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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