Sentimental Journey

[Craig Clark]

Jay Herzog <jwh7 at axe.humboldt.edu> writes:

> 	My memory is of a action figure called Major Matt Mason- an
> astronaut with lots of accessories(space capsule, etc). Like
> many kids of my age, I had a rocket/space obsession(I grew up in rural
> Florida and vividly remember seeing the fiery tail of the Saturn rockets
> launched from the cape as they climbed over the orange groves). It seems
> inevitable that Pynchon would later strongly resonate with me (it doesn't
> hurt that I really like bananas too). 

Wow, another Matt Mason fan on the list! As a kid in growing up in 
Zambia I was a big Matt Mason collector. The trouble was that the 
collapse of the Zambian economy in the late 1960s put much of this 
stuff out of my reach. When I settled in SA in 1970, Matt Mason was 
unheard-of here.

Craig Clark
aka Herod the Horrid

"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"