GRGR 5: Hey, Wait Up for Me!

[Craig Clark]

Don Larsson writes:

> Previously, I noticed the similarity between the Pointsman-Spectro "Fox"
> argument and the projection room scene in CITIZEN KANE, and I think there
> may be other analogies, but Kenosha for some reason seems to have deeper
> resonances for TRP.  Later, we'll encounter the city's name evoked in odd
> places that would seem to have little or nothing to do with the Master.

The later reapperance of the Kenosha Kid, BTW, according to my edition
(the Picador paperback from the mid 1980s) takes place exactly 666 pages
later. Make of this what you will...

> BTW, David Thompson's recent (and typically quirky) bio of Welles, ROSEBUD,
> begins with a section on his youth titled "Kenosha Kid" but TRP and GR
> are not even mentioned!

Is this the same Thompson who wrote a novel, _Suspects_, comprising 
biographical sketches of a range of characters from movies all of 
whom one way or another are related to George _It's A Wonderful Life_ 
Bailey?

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"