GRGR(31) Some Notes and Questions

JEANNIE BERNIER JEANNIE.BERNIER at morningstar.com
Mon Jul 10 14:53:36 CDT 2000


Doug ponders and posits:
> 
> 676.4 Wonder Woman -- I doubt that Pynchon intends this reference as 
> an homage to my former Arcadia High School classmate, Lynda Carter, 
> who played Wonder Woman <http://www.hastur.com/WonderWoman/>   on TV 
> in the '70s. (I expect I'll be seeing her at our high school class 
> reunion later this year). I'm sure some of you will enjoy seeing 
> Lynda tied up <http://www.hastur.com/WonderWoman/images/ww018.jpg > 
> Here she is fighting a gorilla, 
> <http://www.hastur.com/WonderWoman/images/ww020.jpg>.
> 
> 676.33 "a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all-round 
> assholery" -- obvious allusion to Pynchon-L.

Dude, you've got a sense of humor.  My world has been rocked.

NP Q?:  Celebrity Deathmatch - Lynda Carter vs. Lucy Lawless, who would win?

ObPynch - was Wonder Woman already a Marvel comic during WWII?  Or is this
an anachronism?  Anyone know the history of the amazon babe?

JB



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