Re: an amusement

you guys take yourself way too seriously.

-- casey munck

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>From: Kim Johnson <haikux2@yahoo.com>
>To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>Subject: Re: an amusement
>Date: Mon, Mar 3, 2003, 5:43 PM
>

> RESPONSE BELOW
>
> --- "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 18:48:44 2003