TP book confiscations? of V?

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 20:49:46 CDT 2016


Would probably be the impaling scene, yes? 

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> On Aug 29, 2016, at 9:02 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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