My birthday postcard to Thomas this year

[Mark Kohut]

was the top one in a box of Penguin Books postcards I once bought!
BRITAIN IN THE SIXTIES: a Penguin Special (with a sheep on a village street
in the too-red photo (on purpose) cover!) which ought to tickle neurons of
his time there.

After a Thanks I told him I had an experience--of unexpected, unpredicted,
suffused happiness
ala the one he gives Cyprian in ATD. I said he was partly responsible.

I also told him a letter--with what I wrote about yesterday---will follow
as soon as i get it done to my satisfaction.

Forever Young, Mr Pynchon.



Thomas Pynchon
c/o Melanie Jackson Agency
125 W. 72nd St.
New York, NY 10023.