pynchon-l-digest V2 #590

[Miriam Hardin]

> From: "Richard Romeo" <richardromeo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Check out NY Times yesterday for an interesting article about "JSTOR", a 
> nonprofit organization dedicated to making accessible old journals for 
> scholarly research.  What's interesting is the effect such research can 
> have on historical accuracy and the belief that what was thought to be 
> anachronistic in a certain usage or depiction may not be because of the 
> potential new discoveries in the literature so scanned. Kinda goes to 
> the heart of what Mr. P has turned up in places like M&D.

Have they had any luck locating "Paranoid systems of History (PSH), a
short-lived periodical of the 1920s whose plates have all mysteriously
vanished, natch"(GR 238)?
;)

 RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com writes:
> Subject: Re: GR/Trainspotting 

> i'd say that the description of slothrop's journey down the sewer and all
the 
> 'red river valley' stuff is considerably more graphic in detail than a
written 
> description of the scene in trainspotting would be (a'la "junky dives
down 
> toilet to retrieve defecated suppositories, emerges into beautiful blue
lagoon, 
> swims to ocean floor, digs through sand, finds suppositories 'white shiny
and 
> new', and swims to surface to reemerge from the worst toilet in
scotland"). just
> imagine what the scene in GR would be like if in film...
> 
> - --rwilson

*If* in film?  What, aren't you in the theater with the rest of us, taking
the time "to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own
cold legs" while the Rocket points at our roof? :)

Miriam Hardin
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Miriam Hardin
Teaching Fellow, Doctoral Candidate
English Department, Lehigh University
mih5 at lehigh.edu
http://www.lehigh.edu/~mih5/mih5.html