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Subject: Pynchon as horndog
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Bob writes:
"She'd heard of him, but didn't
believe it was him, for some reason she agreed to the drink anyway.
They had
a drink or two, and something happened at some point in the
conversation
where she realized it was him. She didn't know he had a rep for being
so
elusive, so she asked him a lot about himself, etc. He mainly talked
about
his work. The only quote Mike remembers (this was YEARS ago, when they
were
at Columbia) was that Pynchon said to Meg: "It's V  period. Not V!
Damnit! V
PERIOD! "-railing, not at her, but at stupid reviewers and readers, I
guess.
Not much of a tale, but quite a bit of info for one dinner party.
It's V, damnit,period."

Guess if you're going to be a recluse, you have to reconcile yourself
to the
possibility that losers will claim to be you in order to get laid."

*IF* she is sure that  he was TRP!  What, aside from his insistence on
the
correct title of V., led her to think so?

It is not uncommon for unscrupulous people to pose as celebrities in
order
to pick up women.  There was an infamous case a few years back when
some
guy went around telling women he was Richarad Avedon so he could
photograph
them in suggestive poses.  He looked like a slob (which Avendon is
not),
yet they believed him!  And Avedon is not a terribly low-profile guy.

So, if you want to get laid by posing as a celeb., who better to pick
than
someone who's face is unknown to most people?

--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN