TP book confiscations? of V?

[John Bailey]

Where did you find this? Never heard of it but very intriguing.

On 29 Aug 2016 8:54 pm, "matthew cissell" <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Glad to hear from the P-list again; I was starting to get paranoid about
> the silence.
>
>   I sent a couple of things during these missing days in time, so I'll
> throw them out again.
>
> Confiscations? Threatened liberty?
>
> Ciao
> mc otis
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 5:43 PM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hope this goes through to the list.
>>
>> TP wrote some words, like many, for Salman R. back in 1989. TP wrote:
>> "Meaning no harm, I, too, wrote a few sentences in my first novel that
>> angered the mighty in my country. At that time, they only confiscated my
>> book from bookstores and threatened my liberty, but although they did not
>> threaten my life, perhaps I have at least some idea of what it is like. I
>> pray that tolerance and respect for life prevail. I keep thinking of you.
>> Thomas Pynchon, United States.
>>
>> Were there confiscationsof V? Did I miss that? where? when?
>> mc
>> ciao
>> mc
>>
>
>
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