A fascinating literary mystery with more than a touch of Pynchon

[Jamie McKittrick]

Like a dolt, I posted this in the wrong email thread. It belongs here:

This reminds me *very* strongly of the first chapter of Jon Ronson's Psychopath
Test
<http://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Test-Journey-Through-Industry/dp/1594485755/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434028089&sr=8-1&keywords=the+psychopath+test>
wherein Ronson, in his capacity as an investigative journalist, looks into
the matter of a book entitled Being or Nothingness copies of which were
sent to a series of prominent neuroscientists in the post. You can read a
little about it here
<http://lukemuehlhauser.com/the-riddle-of-being-or-nothingness/>. Another
similar incident here
<http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2012/02/the_mystery_of_the_millionaire_metaphysician_slate_republishes_one_of_the_greatest_magazine_stories_ever_written_.html>
too. All quite fascinating stuff.

-Jamie

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

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