"Rob"

[Paul Mackin]

Here Doug is beginning to sound like another voice out of the past--namely
Walter Winchell, gossip colunmist for the old New York Daily Mirror and the
radio. (Good Evening, Mr. and Mrs. America, from border to border and coast
to coast, and all the ships at sea, let's go to press. Flash . . .) Winchell
was one of Joe McCarthy's admirerers although was in decided wane by the
time McCarthy got going strong. Winchell's forte was hinting at personal
information about people. What certain someone did what to a certain someone
else under the table in a certain New York nightspot?

        P.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Olly Ruff" <oruff at darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:52 PM
Subject: "Rob"


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> > -- and that one proved to be more than a little
> > embarrassing for him/her when word got around to a certain editor,
didn't
> > it Rob.
>
>
> Well, you're publically acknowledging that you know what his name is. This
> is a start. The ostentatious "him/her" seems, as ever, completely
> unnecessary.
>
> cheers,
>
> O.R.
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>