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.

[Mark Kohut]

I am too much a fanboy but 1) I don't think any Pynchon scholars or few,
have seen this document. Many don't know the terms (amount)
and timing, I don't think. I, at least, never knew the amount, did you?
Anyone, anyone?

Inflation calculators show this $800 is equal to @$7000 today. ...Further
on this guy's site---he saved these documents from the
trash at Esquire and framed them......I say documents because there are
three others, one a bit later in the 60's shows Ms Donadio
getting a grand grand for Roth for an excerpt from what was not then
entitled* Portnoy's Complaint. *

I'll drop the wows. One man's wow is another guy's old news.

Mark



On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 1:23 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 . . .
>> —
>> T
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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
>>
>