fiction and reality

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

In regard to Andrew's MDMD note about the convergences of "reality" and
"fiction" in TRP's work,  I just started dipping into Sobel's LONGITUDE
and came immediately against the name Sir Clowdisley (which I imagine
being pronounced "clouds-ly") Shovell.  Add to that the incident in
which

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he hanged a crew member for keeping his own navigational notes and trying to
warn the officer that his fleet was offcourse--then promptly crashed and
sank more than half of his crew--strikes me as a particularly Pynchonesque
incident!  Life is stranger . . .etc.


Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)