Originally Posted by Unspar
One of my professors at UW-Madison tried very hard to get in touch with Thomas Pynchon, who's notoriously reclusive. He checked like every phone book, and none of them listed Thomas Pynchon. So then he checked the phone books for names of Pynchon's characters, and he found one (I wish I remembered who...my guess is Roger Mexico), got in touch with him, and made a lunch date. At this lunch, the guy kept insisting that he wasn't Thomas Pynchon, though my professor never suggested that he was. Very interesting, especially considering the vast paranoid conspiracies of Pynchon's books.