/lit/ - Literature

>>16910208
Pynchon is over 6 feet. There's a picture of him where he is clearly tall. There is also a documentary about Pynchon on Youtube where the people who had actually met him describe him as very tall; it's near the end of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEJZtWlgQCo

this alone wouldn't be enough to say he was tall but the pic I posted corroborates this claim.

>>16910234
He could have done multiple takes like >>16910441 says; he could have gotten better at dealing with it; he could have gotten them fixed; his "splutter" could have just been him spitting and wouldn't have carried over to the recording; there's of course the idea that it was a stand in, since this is the only supposed recording of Pynchon, there's nothing to compare it to and figure out if it's him or not. Just get a northeastern American (some New Englander) who's old and could be Pynchon and boom, you have "Pynchon". Of course there is that picture of the script that was sent to Pynchon where he puts comments and edits in the margins, so he had something to do with the episode and it's not impossible that he did his voice, but it's still a possibility.