Thomas Pynchon "appears" on "The John Larroquette Show"

[Mark Kohut]

And we all know that " pandemonium of the sun" is a phrase from BLOOD MERIDIAN. 

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> On Jul 5, 2015, at 3:32 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> Old hat but I had never watched it --- and it's quite a gem!
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM98iFKu0ss
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> > Those who follow Pynchon's occasional transgressions of his own wall of secrecy will remember his relationship with The John Larroquette Show. Larroquette considers himself a pretty literate guy, and is a big fan of Pynchon, so he started slipping references to Pynchon into the show. Eventually, the writers sent a script mentioning TP off to the man himself. The script called for TP to be represented on camera by an extra with his back turned, but Pynchon vetoed that idea. Nonetheless, the plot of the episode revolves around a character who claimed he knows Pynchon. Before the show was cancelled, the writers managed to squeeze in a few more TP references, including one in which the the girl from Blossom assumes the name of a character from V.<
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> http://amysrobot.com/archives/2004/01/the_history_of_thomas_pynchon.php
> http://dangerousminds.net/comments/thomas_pynchon_wears_a_roky_erickson_shirt
> > Here’s the meat of the story reported by the Times:
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> Pynchon has a special love for the losers lost on the wayside of the American dream. So co-executive producer Larroquette decided to feature Pynchon in a script and sent the work-in-progress to Pynchon’s agent for approval.
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> “We made up a novel that he hasn’t written—and he gave us permission to say that he had written ‘Pandemonium of the Sun,’ ” Larroquette says.
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> The mysterious, never-photographed Pynchon refused, however, to let a “Larroquette” extra, in a plaid shirt, be videotaped from the rear and represented as Pynchon.
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> One scene called for Hemingway’s antagonist, the lunch counter operator, Dexter (Daryl “Chill” Mitchell), to reveal, quite casually, that he’s a longtime pal of the much-traveled writer.
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> “You must have seen him, he was sitting here last night!” Dexter insists. The script says Pynchon was wearing a T-shirt with the picture of a certain, obscure musician.*
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> “Pynchon, through his agent, wrote back and says, ‘Would you please make it a picture of Rocky [sic] Erickson on the T-shirt?’ ” Larroquette says.
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> “I looked up Rocky Erickson. He was a psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll musician in the ‘60s who was institutionalized shortly thereafter and spent most of the rest of his life in an insane asylum. Somebody that Pynchon liked, I guess.” <
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