pynchon-l-digest V2 #2105

[luther blissett]

>Besides anything that can (and maybe must) be said against Tricky Dicky: he
>was the one who got the troops out of Vietnam and ended the war. Btw, isn't
>he the protagonist of Robert Coover's "The Public Burning?"
>
>Otto

  Yep, Ol Iron Butt, the 'Fighting Quaker'...  Coover actually fictionalized 
Tricky Dick twice.  I found a book in a used shop in Minneapolis some years 
back that I've not seen since, written by Coover in the late 80's, called 
"Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears?"-- like an alternate 
history addendunm to "The Public Burning", the poor old crook portraied as a 
brain-damaged football player, with an excellent old photo on the cover of a 
teenage Nixon in pads and jersey.


Luther

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