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Finance: Thomas Pynchon Against The Day Novel a Play on a Play

The corporate book selling industry sector known as Thomas Pynchon of Against the Day fame has seen an uptick on numbers released today from the Federal Committee on Obscure Economics, even though Analysts are marking the stock as a liquidate because of a variety of concerns. “In our current post 9-11 era, with terrorism everywhere, to even mention anarchists, gambling, drugs, decadence, rogue scientists, bizarre sex, burning zeppelins, massive explosions, and spies is akin to the scarlet letter for corporate tycoon earnings,” Webb Traverse Kit Frank of Stern Bears said in an interview after the numbers were released. “Doom is on the horizon already, and history has shown a propensity to kill the messenger. In addition, there are certain legal matters which have not been cleared up.” But others have disagreed, including Francine Lake, of the investment group Daughters of the Market. “The legal matters involve a lawsuit claiming certain aspects of the novel to have been derived from a sock puppet show which was published in 1997. But these claims are mostly nonsensical, and there is only a passing resemblance, and besides, this is a novel. The other thing is a sock puppet show. Our group is recommending a strong buy.” Novel investors will place their bets when the stock goes public later in November, and the gloomy predictions of a literary Tunguska Event will be put to the test. As the web blurbs state, its a world of “anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns, Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.”