grant's companions (was: Happy Birthday ...)

[Dave Monroe]

... by the way, there's also an entry featuring an annotation by "our" very own
Paul Mackin ("mackin', snackin' AND packin'," as a friend says).  Went to the
trouble to mark it, but unfortunately didn't go to the trouble to grab the damn
book in my mad rush out this morning.  So keep your eyes peeled (ouch! You know
that's gotta hurt ...).  "Page 212" keeps coming to mind, but I don't know if
that means p. 212 of V. or p. 212 of Grant's Companion thereto.  If it means
anything at all.  But, hey, why didn't anybody mention the following to me?

Simon, Louis P., Jr.  "Profane Illuminations: Benny Profane,
    Herbert Stencil and Walter Benjamin's Flaneur." Pynchon Notes
    30-31 (1992): 172-78.

And even I balked at bringing Nathalie Sarraute into this, but perhaps no
longer.  But that Companion still feels a bit dashed off, too reliant on, say,
the Webster Collegiate Dictionary (vs. the venerable OED), Brittanica Online
(http://brittanica.com) and a handful of secondary sources (though Cowart and
Eddins, in particular, are hardly the worst commentators to rely on).  There
are several Pynchon-List annotations, so watch for familiar names (I haven't
been at this all that long, so ...).  Was disappointed NOT to see Grant make
use of Charles Hollander's online article on McClintic Sphere as Theolonius
Monk.  See ...

www.achilles.net/~howardm/pynchon.html

... although I'm having trouble calling it up right now ...

Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:

> Dave Monroe schrieb:
>
> > ... and, hey, my copies of J. Kerry Grant's A Companion to V. (I agree,
> > you gotta get it, but it's a bit on the thin side)
>
>   sounds just like his col49 companion. not quite the weisenburger quality.
>
> kfl