Pynchon mention

[Don Corathers]

Been off the grid for a while and I don't have time to go through the
accumulated 1200 posts to find out if anybody on the list is actually
reading Hajdu's book. It is, in fact, a fascinating read if you're at all
interested in Dylan, the Village folk scene, etc, etc.

The Pynchon contributions are chatty and generous, and mostly about his
affection for Farina and enthusiasm for Been Down So Long.

There is, though, this bit, describing a visit to Farina in New York while
Pynchon was working on V. and Farina was writing ad copy for J. Walter
Thompson, that is suggestive of the Susanna Squaducci New Year's Eve party:

"One morning [Pynchon relates] he laid out from Thompson and we all went
down to see a guy and his wife off to England on the United States.... We
jammed into this little tiny cabin and drank gin earnestly till sailing
time, lurched off, waved goodbye, sang along with the band, wandered over to
the next pier and found the Ile de France or one of them had just pulled in.
It seemed like a good idea to try and sneak on board, only the quarantine
guys had other ideas, chased us around awhile. That was how it went,
rollicking arouind the streets of New York. A funny time."

My apologies if somebody has already posted this.

Don Corathers


----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>; "John M. Krafft" <krafftjm at muohio.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:39 AM
Subject: Pynchon mention


> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/06/06/DD74209.DTL
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> Dylan's back pages, and more Folkies brought to life in fascinating
> '4th Street'
> by David Kipen
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> SF Chronicle, 6 June 2001
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> "The figure who comes off as the wisest is the one who neither talked
> to Hajdu nor declined to, but who wrote to him instead. That's Thomas
> Pynchon, the peerless but private American novelist who went to
> Cornell with Farina and serves here as a kind of faxed-in Greek
> chorus. "
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