Moriarty (WAS: chapter 1)

[kevin at limits.org]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, pynchon-l-digest wrote:
> (Inverarity: Think Inverse and Moriarty, I believe Dean Moriarty was the 
> character that represented Neal Cassidy in 'On the Road', havent read the 
> book since highschool, but I know that Pynchon was a big fan of Kerouac. 
> What I remember is that Moriarty was pretty nuts party maniac type, but was 
> very poor. So in this sense, Pierce is the inverse since he is really rich, 
> and the way he parties seems to be more calculated than getting drunk in a 
> ghetto. I do have another theory about names which I will discuss in a later 
> post.)

Moriarty is also the detective's nemesis.  Sherlock Holmes cannot exist
without Prof. Moriarty.