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.

[David Morris]

Oh.  So this is an ancient non-story?  A story that never was?  So much for
that “wow.”  Mark is way too much a fan boy, and I don’t do Twitter.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 1:08 PM Tyler Wilson <tbsqrd at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 12:45 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> https://twitter.com/DanielTorday/status/1430549770146250754/photo/1
> >> --
> >> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >>
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>