Thomas Pynchon in the NY Daily News?
March 20, 2012
tags: Crying of Lot 49, Dr. Hilariu, Emory Bortz, New York Daily News, Oedipa Maas, Thomas Pynchon, Thurn und Taxis, Trystero
by Theophrastus
It seems everything I know about New York newspapers is wrong. The online website of the New York Daily News is reporting on a Thomas Pynchon – Crying of Lot 49 graffito in a Brooklyn bathroom:
Now, I’m not quite sure how this is news, but it certainly does not fit in with the stereotype I have of New York Daily News readers.
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I don’t consider Crying of Lot 49 to be particularly obscure, but I hardly think it reaches the level of mass culture; for example, relatively few people seem to be aware that the popular television series Lost was a loose adaptation of Lot 49.