The Black Dog of the Hanging Hills

[Laura Kelber]

Thanks, Erik. This is great!

Laura

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:28 AM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

>  The story is written by W. H. C. Pynchon, grandfather of acclaimed author
> Thomas Pynchon, and was clearly labeled as fiction by *The Connecticut
> Quarterly*, which published poems, fiction and nonfiction. The elder
> Pynchon was 31 and a Harvard-educated scientist working as a professor at
> Trinity College in Hartford. Over the years, perhaps because of the
> similarities between Pynchon and his fictional narrator, the story came to
> be taken as truth rather than fiction.
>
>
> https://www.connecticutmag.com/the-connecticut-story/the-legend-of-the-black-dog-of-the-hanging-hills-has-its-roots-in-literary/article_76dae24c-56a5-11eb-a582-c71c835cb573.html
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