Re. Lot 49 & JFK

[Richard Romeo]

rj sed
>
>Terrance:
> > Is Lot 49 Pynchon's encrypted meditation on the assassination of 
>President John
> > Fitzgerald Kennedy?  Hollander makes a very convincing argument. 
>Comments?
> >
>
>Hollander is indeed a well-received and respected Pynchon critic, though
>I am not familiar with the article you mention or the connections he
>traces in it between _Lot49_ and the assassination of JFK. It seems to
>me to be way too subtle if that was in fact Pynchon's intention with the
>novel
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Never put two and two together, but that article will sure be interesting 
reading.

>Also, I suspect that _Lot 49_ may have been well under way (or, at
>least, projected) by the time of JFK's death. While we're on this, I've
>always been interested to know about the two "excerpts" from _Lot 49_
>which appeared as short stories:
>'The World (This One), the Flesh (Mrs Oedipa Maas), and the Testament of
>Pierce Inverarity'. Esquire 44.6 (December 1965).
>'The Shrink Flips'. Cavalier 16.153 (March 1966).
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Cavalier is, what we in the wastes of Long Island, called a "stroke book".  
Maybe they paid well.  ;)
I don't know about him wanting to ever drop 49, like he supposedly did with 
The Japanese Insurance Adjustor (wouldn't be surprised if that appeared 
somewhere down the road), but I kinda doubt he would publish something he 
wasn't comfortable with.  As an artist, he might have qualms about what 49 
represented to him and his art, but he probably recognized its overall 
worth.

P.S.  Imagine trying to explain to someone why you're looking for a 60s era 
Cavalier?  Yeah, right, sure you're doing research.  ;)
Mom:  Richard, what are u doing in there?
Rich:  Reading Pynchon, Mom!


Rich


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