The epigraphs in *GR*

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basil:
>

> i could be totally wrong on this, but after the nth reading of GR it somehow
> struck me that pynchon is somehow feeling sympathetic (ok maybe sympathetic
> is the wrong word but i am at work, and i cant think of a better one!)
> towards von Braun.
>
> and i somehow alwys felt that the first epigram is related to the
> dedication...

Nice thought. There seems to have been some doubt regarding the attribution
of the von Braun quote in the archives, from the redoubtable Tim Ware no
less:

> From: timware at crl.com (Tim Ware)
> Subject: Re: a mystery solved
> Date: 2 Feb 1996 22:43:27 -0800
>
> I wouldn't get too worked up about meanings in "Nothing disappears
> without a trace". I'm pretty sure (as perhaps all the rest of you are)
> that Mr. Caesar's fantastic discovery was apocryphal. If the Grandma
> Moses bit doesn't convince, a bit of checking reveals no such volume
> entitled "The Third Book of Words to Live By."
>
> It was pretty cute, but I think the story about that film maker a few
> months back was better hoax.
>
> Still curious.
>
> TW

Any recollection of how that turned out? The thread fizzles after this post
of Ware's. There's no mention of the cited volume or author on amazon.com,
but that isn't so surprising I guess.

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