P-Pix

[jbor]

I wonder if that mention of a "diggers ass" in the last line of what is
apparently one of the letters (right at the bottom of the page) is a
reference to the derogatory label which the American settlers gave to their
West Coast Indian slaves in the 1870s and 1880s (after the Spanish and then
Mexicans had set up the slave missions in California). The Indian slaves
were called "diggers" apparently (I've been watching every minute of the
wonderful _500 Nations -- The Story of Native Americans_ series over the
past couple of months). But it certainly looks like a cranky-sounding
letter!

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on 7/3/01 12:31 AM, Richard Romeo at richardromeo at hotmail.com wrote:

> I wonder if Pynchon is aware of these letters and if so if he'll have any
> recourse to nixing access like those other letters of his a few years
> back--I wonder if he has a case.
> 
> that is a great find though, Judy
> rich
> 
> 
>> From: "Judith A. Panetta" <judy at brandxinc.com>
>> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: RE: P-Pix
>> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:57:59 -0400
>> 
>> Ok...so I didn't feel like working...I didn't feel like solitaire...so I
>> went abrowsing through these images.
>> 
>> Did anyone catch this one:
>> 
>> www.hrc.utexas.edu/newsletters/ newsletterspr01/pynchon2.htm
>> 
>> They claim to have the corrected typescript of V (INCLUDING a hunk that was
>> ixnayed.) plus letters.
>> 
>> Is this old news?
>>