pynchon-l-digest V1 #386

[Bob Norton]

Having been a DJ for a time in those days, I can tell you that almost every
DJ then had an FCC 3rd Class Radiotelephone License. This required passing
a test that any self-respecting 10 year old who knew that batteries have a
+ and a - terminal could pass. If you didn't have one you weren't legally
allowed to make log entries or do anything affecting the transmission. On
night shifts you would often be the only person in the station, thus the
need for licensure. 3rd (and 1st) Class RT licenses were trashed by Reagan,
allowing stations to hire folks less educated or gifted than the
hypothetical 10 year old I invoked, for far lower wages. But I digress. If
RT was a DJ, there will be a record of a 3rd Class RT license at the FCC.
Anyone wanna try to find it? 

Please overlook the fact that I post from an .edu account. I am neither
pedagogue nor (enrolled) student. I'm a Biomedical Photographer. A Working
Stiff in the "grove" <g>.



>        Has the brief reappearance of Mucho Maas in _Vineland_ ever bothered
>anyone besides me?  I've been at a loss myself to find any literary
>justification for his reappearance there.  This gratuitous trotting-out or
>re-cycling of old Mucho struck me (along with all the "cool cars") as
>somehow typical of V-land's weakness.  Mucho's contribution to the story
>seemed flimsy, to say the least.  Now I admit that these musings of mine are
>not unconnected with the recent speculation over a "Thom Pynchon" at KEWB
>(which I've contributed to, but did not start).  If there's a bit of
>concealed autobiography in Mucho's repeat appearance in V-land, then maybe
>that helps justify his presence there.    -j minnich
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