MothraAttack
14th April 2008, 10:22 PM
It's no big secret that Thomas Pynchon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon) is camera shy. That being said, I came across this tidbit the other day while scanning a Pynchon fansite:
"The hunt is on for these (extremely rare) Pynchon photos:
* As a pallbearer at Richard Farina's funeral in 1966 in the 1st edition only of The Judy Collins Songbook (unconfirmed)
* Pynchon and Farina in period costume, duelling in a cemetery, that was published in a joke edition of the Cornell Sun in the spring of 1959
* Pynchon's Ford Foundation grant application of 1959 leaked out, but has been suppressed. See the article by Steve Weisenburger in "American Literature" 62.4 (December 1990): 692-97."
From here (http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/faq/BargerFAQ.html)
Perhaps half a dozen photographs of him are known to exist. While the fansite in question is a bit old, these alleged pics are still AWOL. Interestingly, however, on a Richard Farina fansite I found these photos from a "joke edition of The Cornell Sun."
See the second part here (http://www.richardandmimi.com/cornell.html). It appears to be a picture of Farina and an unknown male dueling in a cemetery. Nom de plumes seem to be used in the cutlines.
Is "Marcel Alador" a young Pynchon? I e-mailed the webmaster, but there was no response. Naturally, then, my curiosity brought me to my next-best resource: JREF. Can anyone here help shed some light on this, be it from finding The Cornell Sun in question or otherwise?
Perhaps, though, it's a mystery best unsolved.
"The hunt is on for these (extremely rare) Pynchon photos:
* As a pallbearer at Richard Farina's funeral in 1966 in the 1st edition only of The Judy Collins Songbook (unconfirmed)
* Pynchon and Farina in period costume, duelling in a cemetery, that was published in a joke edition of the Cornell Sun in the spring of 1959
* Pynchon's Ford Foundation grant application of 1959 leaked out, but has been suppressed. See the article by Steve Weisenburger in "American Literature" 62.4 (December 1990): 692-97."
From here (http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/faq/BargerFAQ.html)
Perhaps half a dozen photographs of him are known to exist. While the fansite in question is a bit old, these alleged pics are still AWOL. Interestingly, however, on a Richard Farina fansite I found these photos from a "joke edition of The Cornell Sun."
See the second part here (http://www.richardandmimi.com/cornell.html). It appears to be a picture of Farina and an unknown male dueling in a cemetery. Nom de plumes seem to be used in the cutlines.
Is "Marcel Alador" a young Pynchon? I e-mailed the webmaster, but there was no response. Naturally, then, my curiosity brought me to my next-best resource: JREF. Can anyone here help shed some light on this, be it from finding The Cornell Sun in question or otherwise?
Perhaps, though, it's a mystery best unsolved.