At 12:54 PM -0400 7/26/01, Trei, Peter wrote:

Careful, or you'll be W.A.S.T.E.d

Oedipa was perfectly sane - it was the people around her who were "interesting".

TCOL49 was my first introduction to conspiracy theory and the notion of 'hidden history'. I remember it fondly.

Peter

Amusingly, Robert Anton Wilson claims in his book "Everything is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups," the following: "It has even been suggested that Pynchon is a pen name for T.C. May (see Crypto Anarchy)." The fact that both TRP and myself lived in the small coastal town of Aptos during the same years is mere coinci-dance. The fact that Wilson lives in a nearby town, Capitola, is another coinci-dance. The fact that his daughters live on the ridge opposite mine is also coinci-dance. The fact that Dr. Bob Newport, one of the original slackers, lives nearby is also just an example of there being a lot of slack in this area. (The true site for much of "Vineland," not the Mendocino forests so often claimed. Wanda Tinasky lives!) --Tyrone Slothrop -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns