Just a thought on Seagull...

[Meg Larson]

"Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions; they are
metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous
force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as
metal and no longer as coins"
  ---Friedrich Nietzsche                                                   
                                                                           
                                                        

Meg Larson
Saginaw Valley State University
mgl at tardis.svsu.edu              

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> From: Jules Siegel <jsiegel at pdc.caribe.net.mx>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Just a thought on Seagull...
> Date: Wednesday, April 30, 1997 10:50 PM
>Jules whines:
 
> Go look through Thomas Pynchon's works for material derived from
> unattributed sources. You'll find plenty. No one here will accuse him of
> plagiarism, of course.
> 
> I suggest that you compare Thomas Pynchon's descriptions of SHOCK and
SHROUD
> in V. with the radiation dummies manufactured by Alderson Research for
the
> Atomic Energy Commission in 1958-59. I gave Pynchon some of their press
> materials and brochures when he visited me in New York in 1959.
> 
> Neither Alderson, nor I (nor The New York Times, which published
photographs
> along with a story about the devices that was part of the press kit)
> received any credit.

I knew it!  I just had this sneaking suspicion, mentioned it off-list to
Dr. T, a-and now it's has it? oh yes it has BEEN CONFIRMED--this is just
one big pissing contest between Jules and Pynchon, although it's only
manifesting itself through Jules.  The Book is out, and we're losing our
fascination w/ Jules' little coattail trip.  A-and excuse me if I've got
this all wrong, but this is not our perception of the world; it's your
projection, Jules.  

When will little Jules just take the goddamn ball and GO HOME?!?!
>
Eating nails and lots of broken glass 'til my copy gets here, 
Meg

 
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