MDMD(11): Sailors and Whores and Company Writers

[Dave Monroe]

"Now whisper Ear your Wish, your fondest Wish,-- join
all those Sailors and Whores and Company Writers
without number who've found their way down here ..."
(M&D, Ch. 17, p. 179)

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr., served his country as a
member of the United States Navy from 1957 to 1959 ...

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

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/slowlearner/lowlands.html

After which he served the Boeing Airplane Co. of 
Seattle, Washington, also in the United States ...

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

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/together.html

So, then, two down, one to go ...

"I know what your editors want, exactly what they want
..."

Something like that.  If anybody has their Gravity's
Rainbow handy (seeing as I don't have two grand to
blow just now) ...




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