Dorseywhite t1_itminy3 wrote on October 24, 2022 at 7:06 PM Reply to comment by weirdal1968 in TIL that the famous author Thomas Pynchon has avoided publicity during his fifty-year career to the point that almost all known photos of him are from the 1950s. However, he voiced himself in two episodes of The Simpsons, where his dialogue consisted entirely of puns on the titles of his books. by IHad360K_KarmaDammit I saw an episode of Night Court with Larroquette's character saying something about hunting alligators in the sewers of New York, which I think was likely a reference to Pynchon's first novel "V" (Larroquette's a big TP fan supposedly). Permalink Parent 2
Dorseywhite t1_itminy3 wrote
Reply to comment by weirdal1968 in TIL that the famous author Thomas Pynchon has avoided publicity during his fifty-year career to the point that almost all known photos of him are from the 1950s. However, he voiced himself in two episodes of The Simpsons, where his dialogue consisted entirely of puns on the titles of his books. by IHad360K_KarmaDammit
I saw an episode of Night Court with Larroquette's character saying something about hunting alligators in the sewers of New York, which I think was likely a reference to Pynchon's first novel "V" (Larroquette's a big TP fan supposedly).