Today, in a used bookstore in downtown Pittsburgh,

[Mark Kohut]

I told him about it. He listened, said that he thought he'd heard about it before but said he just wanted to read Pynchon on his own. 

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On May 2, 2014, at 6:02 AM, Jacob Carey <aristotle114 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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