My birthday postcard to Thomas this year

[Mike Weaver]

Yes he did at least visit the UK. I have a vague memory of a UK TV 
programme a long time ago where someone English said they got a phone 
call from a colleague saying "Would you like to meet Pynchon" and the 
guy saying how normal and relaxed it was meeting him.

On 15/05/2019 08:26, Mark Kohut wrote:
> 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
>> --
>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>
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