SPHERE to Eternity

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

rj wrote:
> 
> tf
> > YUP! But are there some he wants to play with?  Just as
> > Pynchon will bring in historical companies, use their proper
> > names, whole and complete, even give their addresses,
> > histories etc., he will invent fictional companies and
> > addresses that reference things not in the text, but out of
> > the text.  We look them up all the time. He will bends
> > things, with poetic license, like the yew tree, or the
> > architecture where the rockets are built and he invents
> > characters, fictional characters with fictional names. What
> > is an example of this other than Geli? Other wise we will
> > get on to "Where does Pirate fit? Where does this fictional
> > character fit or that half name fit?" And we can go on and
> > on here, unless we deal either with Geli Tripping or, and
> > this might be better,  a different example of a fictional
> > character that we can maybe make more progress with???
> 
> Well, let's go with Yoyodyne as Boeing for one. I'd say a fear of legal
> recriminations might have inspired this particular change because Mr P
> is fictionalising (scurrilously so) and from personal experience rather
> than utilising facts from the public domain as he does with, say, Shell
> and IGFarben and Petrochemie in *GR*. It's a great change, it adds to
> the satire, and I didn't even realise the onomatapoeia of the name
> Boeing (boing!) until I realised the connection. But, it's also very
> obvious.
> 
> best


OK Kool! Apogee, right. I don't know if its a legal
motivation here. Might be? Might be, as you say, traditional
satire, and onomatopoeia, yup those seem to explain  it all
right. But the case is being made for fictional characters
referencing historical figures. We seem far apart on Geli.
But Sphere seems to have more common ground. It is a short
essay a few of us have read and we can discuss separate from
the ongoing grgr.