Pretty wow, if I say so myself-- since it isn't me. The Esquire requisition-- by Arnold Gingrich himself,-- to pay Thomas Pynchon for the Crying of Lot 49 excerpt.

[Tyler Wilson]

Isn’t this clearly just the payment he received for the excerpt that appeared — pre-publication! — in the December 1965 Esquire issue. Seems pretty straight forward . . .
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> On Aug 25, 2021, at 9:51 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It’s impossible to understand *anything* about this $800 payment w/o any
> context.  Like, was “fair use” violated, and, if so, how?  That would be my
> first question.
> 
> David Morris
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>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 12:45 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> https://twitter.com/DanielTorday/status/1430549770146250754/photo/1
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>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
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