Yet more casting tips...
Andrew Dinn
andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Fri Feb 3 03:31:46 CST 1995
Marshall Joseph Armintor writes:
> Somehow...okay, some real life people that got transplanted into mind-movie
> of GR:
> Slothrop = pynchon himself (at least, how he looked at 17...a lot like
> WWI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker)
I know this is only fun but it reminds me of a previous, slightly more
serious discussion asking which of the characters could have written
GR i.e. which of them is the *real* Pynchon. Well, ignoring the
obvious `none of the above', I'd argue that Slothrop just doesn't
fit. TRP would never have looked up to Jack Kennedy from that toilet
bowl.
I still think the only candidate is Osbie Feel. He may look like a
mindless, escapist dreamer, candy-man to the professionally dissolute
and disenfranchised. But it turns out he's the only one who knows all
along what is really happening and underneath the horse-play are these
coded messages choreographing the burgeoning counterforce.
Andrew Dinn
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there is no map / and a compass / wouldn't help at all
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