----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Well, I actually once met Jeremy Butler and even (if memory serves) had lunch with him and several others at a Midwest MLA meeting. But all this begins to sound like the recent discussion on PYNCHON-L over whether Thomas Pynchon really exists! So, Jeremy, does this mean that *you* are Thomas Pynchon? Actually, with all due respect to Freelancr, I think this may demonstrate that we are *all* authorial constructs who occupy author-functions on the net. Or--if a message is sent on e-mail and no one responds, did a tree fall in the forest? --Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN