Sources

[Peter Giordano]

Referring toSobel's LONGITUDE John says:
>
>Though, as the passage above reveals, Sobel has a tin ear and a poor grasp
>of sentence
>structure, yet perhaps this little trope was inspiring of the fleshed out
>idea in M & D?  At
>any rate, seems a good sign that Sobel's LONGITUDE (copyright 1995) was a
>source.  Date
>of pub. might give some good textual scholar someday a hook on TRP's
>method of
>composition?
I say:
I've been thinking about this in a general way - There is an article from
1956 on one
of the M & D web pages which although brief seems to resonate in the first
200 pages
of the novel, then there is the odd reference to Patrick O'Brien - It might
have something
to do with the process of research for TRP - He makes the material his own
and intellectually
and artistically processes it but because he is literally jumping from text
to text perhaps
the source is close to the surface - (please don't think that I am suggesting
plagarism)

Peter Giordano
Williams College
Williamstown, MA