My birthday postcard to Thomas this year

[Mark Kohut]

I thought I had learned in my magpie reading about TRP, that he spent time
in London researching at the British Museum. That Ian McEwan and
Salmon Rushdie had had a meal with him there. That he had called up
Hitchens from London.

But, ask the real scholars.

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 11:15 PM <Plainmrbotanyb at protonmail.com> wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> On May 6, 2019, 9:23 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --- *Did* the Oyster Bay Kid spend time on England's green and fragrant
> shores? I was unaware of such. My dossier on his travels includes New York,
> California, Mexico, Kansas City (from a forgotten web trawling years ago,
> the person said they met in a steakhouse but Mr Pynchon wasn't a big
> beefeater) , and maybe Texas (Dallas, I think, but can't remember the
> context) but precious little even on those environs. Had read - on this
> list - that he had a parking lot conversation with Germany's culture
> minister, presumably in Germany, but have never read of his peregrinating
> anywhere else.
> Is there a source for this?
>
> -Mark added:
> 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.
>
> ---probably I'm not the only one wondering, so if you could imagine a
> clamorous request for details?
> As the BeeGees sang, "Nobody gets too much heaven no more, it's much
> harder to come by - I'm waiting in line"
>
> And why shouldn't I invent some way, however fantastic and contrived, of
> talking about something, without someone having to ask whether I'm
> qualified to talk like that? - Gilles Deleuze
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