V.V. (6) AEF

[jbor]

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M. Monroe:

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> That AEF @ p. 102 no doubt refers immediately to that
> American Expeditionary Force


Quite right:

http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/airserv3.htm

The other connections, interesting as they are, are irrelevant to the
textual narrative. Merely "free association", as you note.

And while on the subject of tangentially Pynchon-related reading matter, the
recent David Bodanis book, _E = mc 2 A Biography of the World's Most Famous
Equation_, is a lively little number which gives some reader-friendly
background on, as well as Einstein's almost oversighted theorem, Leibniz,
J.C. Maxwell, Heisenberg (& Heisenberg contra Bohr), Lisa Meitner, R.
Oppenheimer, Cameron Diaz, and other worthy science luminaries whose
names/ideas/"achievements" crop up from time to time in the oeuvre.

http://www.independent.co.uk/enjoyment/Books/Reviews/2000-11/thursbk301100.s
html#top

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