Well Veeky Forums, it finally arrived. After reading about half of it I'm pretty sure it's Ruggles...

Didn't even read the Wikipedia article, huh?

>The situation changed in 1998 when Shakespeare scholar and "literary detective" Don Foster—who had gained publicity by correctly identifying Joe Klein as the author of Primary Colors—fingered an obscure Beat poet and writer, Tom Hawkins, as the author of the letters.

>Foster's previous work was based on direct comparisons between unidentified and identified texts, looking for patterns in vocabulary, usage and orthography. Foster's techniques have aroused some controversy, and his results have been mixed.

>The Tinasky identification involved more direct detective work, with the crucial step involving computer searches for works written about writers mentioned in the Tinasky letters. Hawkins' name turned up, and Foster then tracked down more information about and writings by Hawkins. Eventually, many minor biographical details appeared which exactly matched the letters: recycled Hawkins poetry was discovered in the letters, and ultimately the very typewriter Hawkins used was found. Unlike the case with Pynchon, where there were both similarities and discrepancies throughout, the identified mismatches between Hawkins and Tinasky were limited to the Tinasky façade, and a small number of "transparent forgeries", as Foster calls them, that had been culled ahead of time.

>In 2000, Foster published a popular account in his Author Unknown. It has largely ended academic speculation on Tinasky's identity. Furthermore, several months after Foster's book came out, the Wanda Tinasky Letters page[2] went blank without explanation, and the Letters soon went out of print.

I read the last sentence as "several months after Foster's book came out, the Wanda Tinasky Letters went blank without explanation" and got spooked for a second.

I'll have a look at that article, and his publications. Your post, in and of itself is unconvincing.

Haha, ok, wow, first of all, pynchon LIVED in california, he probably KNEW this guy tom hawkins and DELIBERATELY wrote in his style to throw people off. The guy had the IQ of a marvel villain, he's ten steps ahead of this "style analysis" shit.

The website archive has a bit of background
web.archive.org/web/19991022233907/http://members.aol.com/tinasky/controversy.html

The guy reckoned JonBenet whoever, the child beauty queen wossname that died in the 90s, that her mother didn't murder her until the other side paid some money and then he reckoned she did.

While the connections to Hawkins is interesting at least by serendipity I wouldn't take it as bible

Yeah, no thanks, not convinced, it's going to take hard fucking evidence to make me let go of my comfy "kinda sounds like him" wishy wishiees.

if you can adequately kind of sound like pynchon, Veeky Forums will insist you ARE thomas pynchon.

Holy shit lads, this is going into paranoid schizophrenic territory.

I'm Thomas Pynchon, or am I?

Thomas Pynchon is putting water into the Government's fluoride.

pynchon is a nerd, in a bad way. he's fucking annoying. this is a cool little mystery though.

There are a few references lifted from TCOL and a couple of sentences that seem like they were reworked to fit in VL. Wanda also says she spent some time at Boeing.

Check out pic related and tell me they wouldn't fit in a Ruggles novel.

I remember when Veeky Forums conspiracies were discussed into the early hours... Alas! Those were the best of times, they were the blurst of times.