Pynchon's travels (WAS traveling in postmodern style!)

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

Doug Millison writes:
> According to Jules/Chrissie, Pynchon wasn't "brave" or "adventurous" enough
> to travel to Africa to research the Herero.  Does anybody know if that's
> likely to be accurate? Or is he known to have traveled and researched as
> Jesper suggests? I've assumed that Pynchon must have done a lot of that,
> which is one reason why I was surprised to read that report in Lineland.

Don't know about mainland Europe or Africa but my knowledge of London
and the North East of England convinces me that Pynchon spent some
time in both. No guide book (nor even a Pink Floyd album cover) could
give you a feel for the scene overlooking Battersea power station from
the Chelsea side. Nor could you appreciate the up and down rolling
beauty of the old Roman road from south of Bishop Auckland down
through Piercebridge to Scotch Corner from a mere map (not to mention
that story of the Stilton and ketchup pizza which sounds to me like a
travelers tale of the 60s North East transmuted into an unbelievable
`fiction').


Andrew Dinn
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We drank the blood of our enemies.
The blood of our friends, we cherished.