MDDM(8)/Ch.11 113.34: ' my Wren '

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
I'm not so sure. It *should* be true, but P doesn't seem very much
interested in architects, unless of course they use that nasty
parabolic arch form (GR's fictional(?) Olsch). I recall that when I
visited the Greenwich observatory it is one of those many many many
many English buildings, usually of brick with light stone dressings,
"thought" to be by Wren, and I submit that if Wren had any place in P's
scheme he would be mentioned in that context, or in reference to the
Royal Society (of which he was an early if not a founding member), or
something.

Alas, P ignores architects -- we don't seem to float his boats. Wren is
a nice name, though, and he used it in V.

There is a whole lotta great architecture by Inigo Jones, Webb, Wren,
Vanbrugh, Archer, and my particular favorite Hawksmoor, all layed out
around the hill at Greenwich, and none of it figures for Pynchon in any
way. The *philistine*!!

Mark


--- JL <trailerman at cableinet.co.uk> wrote:
> always keen to promote the county of my birth, i gotta
> take this as reference to one of the two finest architects
> Wiltshire has produced; who also happened to be a fair
> astronomer and mathematician.  a-and founder of the Royal
> Society, pioneer of optics, applicant for the Longitude
> Prize, face on a banknote etc...
> 
> 
>
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Wren.html
> 
> 
> JL
> 


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