Re: an amusement

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--- "D." <darjr1@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >> My favorite is "JD Salinger is NOT Thomas
> Pynchon."
>
> >ah, but in the late 70's there was a small sect of
> >people SERIOUSLY running around believing pynchon
> was
> >none other than j.d. salinger. they would accost
> you
> >at airports and other public places, with copies of
> v.
> >& catcher clutched in their hands.
> >
> >(some guy published an article in the 'village
> voice'
> >(was it there?) unmasking pynchon.)
> >
> >kim
>
>
> This is where that "theory" began:
>
> Batchelor, John Calvin. "Thomas Pynchon Is Not
> Thomas Pynchon: or, This Is
> the End of the Plot Which Has No Name."
> Soho Weekly News, 22-28 April 1976, 15-17, 21-35.
>
> When Pynchon got wind of Batchelor's theory that
> Salinger and he were one
> and the same person, he wrote Batchelor back and
> said "Not bad, keep
> trying." As a fan of both Salinger and Pynchon, I
> can assure you that
> neither man wrote the other's works, no matter how
> outlandish your theory
> might be that they did.
>

d.,

i hope that the tone of my post was heard as one of
jest (the 'hare krishna' angle of being accosted at
airports, etc.)

i certainly don't, and never did, believe the article.

for that matter, those who thought that the anonymous
'for rupert' story in 'esquire' was none other than
jds again illustrates the tin ear of too many readers.

kim

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Received on Mon Mar 3 18:43:10 2003