M&D Q.

[Dave Monroe]

I don't know about anybody's ultimate sources here,
but Harold Bloom mentions this as well in his editor's
introduction to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow:
Modern Critical Interpretations (New York: Chelsea
House, 1986), which I'm presuming is not to be
confused with Harold Bloom, ed., Thomas Pynchon:
Modern Critical Views (New York: Chelsea House, 1986),
but I can't say I've ever seen them in the same room,
so ... but I do have the former somewhere about, and,
while I'll check and see if there are any clues, I
don't recall there being any.  Heard it through the
grapevine(land), I suppose.  Did find this tidbit
mentioned at ...

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/washington_post.html

http://www.salon.com/april97/media/media2970425.html

... but anyone know what issue of Newsweek this was
in?  Info not forthcoming online here.  I imagine the
Mason-Dixon line factor is what caused rumors of a
Civil War novel, but I'd still like to know what
happend to the rumored Japanese monsters.  Sure,
tangentially related elements in Vineland, but ... but
I still wonder if perhaps somehow there was some
signal bleed from Mark Jacobson's allegedly (according
to a cover blurb) Pynchonesque Gojiro (New York:
Grove, 1992?).  Reminds me, fight fans ...

http://www.kaiju.com/home.htm

Oh, and, hey, just picked up ...

Figal, Gerald A.  Civilization and Monsters:
   Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan.
   Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1999.

Which I'm itching to read soon as I've knocked off "V.
in love" here, so ...

--- "J. Lawshe" <jlawshe at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Does anyone know Newsweek's source for their (1978)
> claim that a TRP
> Mason-Dixon Line novel was in the works?  Do we have
> a good idea of when
> he started thinking/writing M&D?
> 
> Jeff Lawshe
> 
> Department of English, Box 354330
> jlawshe at u.washington.edu
> 


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