GRGR(13) - Geli

[Doug Millison]

The OSS report on Hitler is online at
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/osssection5pt1.htm

I agree with Pynchon scholars who believe that TRP knows what he's doing
when he makes specific historical and artistic allusions in his novels.
But,  GR is not a crossword puzzle.  People don't stand  for other people.
In some passages there are allusions that are meant to  recall other, real
historical, people.  They are not strict correspondences.  They are
allusions, meant to call associations to mind.

-Doug

P.S. To see how this name game works in COL49, take a look at "Pynchon, JFK
and the CIA:  Magic Eye Views of _The Crying of Lot 40_" by Charles
Hollander in _Pynchon Notes_ 40-41 (Spring-Fall 1997) and see where
research into TRP's character names can get you in terms of uncovering a
political/historical subtext that weaves together with TRP's surface
narrative to powerful effect.

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