A fascinating literary mystery with more than a touch of Pynchon

[Prashant Kumar]

Thanks for the link! The book also reminds me of a novel this Ruby
programmer, _why, put out in 2013, after in 2009 disappearing entirely from
the net
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/15/why-a-tale-of-a-post-modern-genius/>.
No one's heard from him since the novel
<https://archive.org/details/136875051WhySCompletePrinterSpoolAsOneBook>,
which, like *Iterating Grace, *is a startup culture sort of satire.

On 11 June 2015 at 11:13, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>> He named his dog "Smoot". Connection to MIT.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:13 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://fusion.net/story/146648/who-wrote-this-amazing-mysterious-book-satirizing-tech-startup-culture/
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20150611/89fb504c/attachment.html>