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

[Byrnes Weir]

At 11:26 AM 7/30/97 BST, andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk wrote:
>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
>-----------
>We drank the blood of our enemies.
>The blood of our friends, we cherished.


     Andrew: It has been a while, but I helped in the overthrow of the
             Colonels in Greece (popadopalus etc) when Carmalades &Papandreau
             were in Toronto. 
             I met my father, Major JT Weir "Queen's Own Rifles" who among
             other things had led a Canadian contingent up the beach at
             Normandy on D Day...

             At the time, the owner of the Savoy hotel, was being made
             Lord Mayor of London

             1973?


             like I remember...

             It was strange to be back...


             I walked all over London & took Cabs


             All seemed noisy at first    (echoes)


                                                Lest we forget


                                                  Byrnes
>
>



Charles Byrnes Weir POWERSOURCE
Toronto Canada