Unrelated Lothrops

[Al X]

Actually, after fumbling my way through Amazon, I think that is the book I 
was thinking of. Thank you. As you said so poetically (it somehow strikes me 
as positively Beckettian), "Sorry, bags, boxes, just came to mind, is all 
..." 'Tis true and a sorry state to be in.
As for Lothrop, and I feel certain that this topic must be one of the most 
pointless and endearing ones I've ever seen, I simply imagine Pynchon (and 
when I say imagining Pynchon, it is analogous to imagining God as a bearded 
and robed wo/man) walking through a graveyard, near where the Pynchons first 
settled and satirizing a family that is somehow symbolic of all of America. 
Anyway, here's what I've got...


"John Lothropp has been ranked as one of the four most prominent colonial 
ministers in America.  His spiritual and political strength not only was 
emulated by his sons and daughters, but has been evidenced in the lives of 
thousands of his descendants in the past four centuries They include 
presidents of the United States, a prime minister of Canada, authors, 
financiers,  politicians, and last but certainly not least, key leaders 
among religious groups throughout the centuries and spanning the continent. 
"  "Biography of John Lothrop (1584-1653)", by Richard Price

Notable Kin

See the Notable Lathrop Kin Page
Bush, President George - US President
Carter, Nick - of the Backstreet Boys
Dulles, John Foster - Secretary of State (Eisenhower)
Grant, Ulysses -  Civil War general and President of the United States
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - American Novelist
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (Sr.) - Author, poet, physician, lecturer
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (Jr.) - Supreme Court Justice
Huntington, Ebenezer - Revolutionary War Officer, Later General in 1790's, 
Congressman
Huntington, Isaac - Connecticut Convention that voted for Constitution
Lathrop, George Parsons - American Novelist
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth American Novelist
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano - President of the United States

By this point, I am practically writing my own novel, insomuch as it is 
assuredly safe to bet that we are taking allusion to new heights, but think: 
Slothrop's connection to the founders of the nation (Backstreet Boys, 
anyone?), and furthermore to Bush, a continuation of Nixon? Of course, I 
could take this further, we could all take this further, but then I think 
I'm already analyzing a book that doesn't particularly exist...as of now.

>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
>To: Al X <boggle_king at hotmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Unrelated
>Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:41:23 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Well, I'm sure this ISN'T what your looking for, but
>if there's a genre in the making, well, try Kobo Abe,
>The Box Man (Hako otoko, 1974).  People living,
>wearing, walking around in boxes.  Across his career,
>he seems to have gone from (roughly) existentialist to
>absurdist, with some interesting stabs at sort of New
>Wave science fiction.  There's have been pretty decent
>films made of his The Woman in the Dunes (which is
>perhaps his classic) and The Face of Another as well.
>I've succesfully given his Ark Sakura (one of the
>first offerings from taht Vintage International line
>translations, now sadly out of print) as a present to
>various friends as well, as a sort of Japanses
>Confedracy of Dunces.  Sorry, bags, boxes, just came
>to mind, is all ...
>
>--- Al X <boggle_king at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I am fairly sure this has nothing to do with Mr.
> > Pynchon, but perhaps I am mistaken, in which case
> > we'll all be much happier. I am looking for the
> > author and/or title of a book I've heard about
> > involving a hero/ine with a habit of putting a paper
> > bag over her head to avoid reality.
>
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