On Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 01:36:40PM -0700, WILL HOCHMAN wrote: > Yesterday, Mel Gussow reported that the morgan library has some juicy > letters from pynchon but has agreed to sit on them until after pynchon > croaks...also mentioned were letters jds wrote to Michael Mitchell, the > book designer of catcher's dust jacket, but the same post mortem rule will > apply. Do words ever stop dying? will Mine seem to have begun to. Ceaselessly. I saw that article and was extremely saddened by it. Not as a scholar denied primary material (well, maybe a little bit of that, if I dared label myself a scholar), but by the ghoulish thoughts such news inevitably call come to mind. I want to read those letters. But at this moment, I don't want to read them THAT badly. Not badly enough to satisfy the Morgan's "after-death" rule. I'd rather both authors lived to see 100 than to satisfy my desire to visit the library and read. --tim