MDDM Ch. 12 Summary & Notes

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, to get back to the perfectly unobjectionable
post which seemingly started it all ...

--- John Bailey <johnbonbailey at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I've read of the Ghastly Fop as a real serial
> somewhere other than M&D, but I can't remember where

> (it was a long time ago). I'm definitely not 
> misremembering, and I'm pretty confident that
> Pynchon was using (or abusing) a 'real' source here,
> although I have a slight suspicion that it was the 
> Ghostly Fop, though I could be wrong here, as ever
> and elsewhere. 

To be honest, I'd assumed so far that The Ghastly Fop
was, like The Revenger's Tragedy, another pastiche on
Pynchon's part.  Can't find an actual published TGF,
or The Vampyrs of Covent Garden (M&D, Ch. 12, p. 113),
for that matter, but, hey, if anybody's got info ... 

But, given a chance to catch up here, I suppose I
really should be able to come up with some salient
info, at least, on that "Gothick" genre in general and
some likley sources in particular here, so ... 

Vampyrs of Covent Garden, though ... Covent Garden was
and remains a center of cultural and, esp., commercial
life in London, right?  See, e.g. ...

http://www.cgareatrust.org.uk/intro/history.htm

Suspect a little joke there with "Vampyrs" ...



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