Gaddis & Pynchon & T-t-t-t-tox?

[jbor]

Having a second look at _Shakespeare in Love_ on the Tube the other week I
was struck again by the way the stuttering actor playing the chorus begins
the performance of 'Romeo and Juliet':

    "T-t-t-t-two families ... "

I wondered whether this might be a bit of a synchronic nod of Tom Stoppard's
to Pynchon. Similarly, Pynchon's mention of a "Carpenter Gothic outhouse" in
_Vineland_ (26) seems a similar sort of friendly wink at Gaddis.

_A Frolic of His Own_ is a truly wonderful book, by the way.

best


Bandwraith:

> "Later on their bones were fished up again and made
> into charcoal, and charcoal into ink, which Angelo,
> having a dark sense of humor, used in all his subsequent
> communications with Faggio, the present document
> included" [CL49, Perrenial Lbrary, H&R, p.74]
> 
> 
> No hallowed skein of stars can ward, I trow,
> Who's once been set his tryst with Trystero.
> 
> cf, MD 684.25
> 
> "I am quite undeluded," the Forest Dithyrambist replies...
> 
> ' 'Tis only by the Grace that some call Luck
> That anyone can quite escape the Muck.-
> As e'er 'mongst Wax, and Wigs, and Printer's Ink
> Seepeth the creeping sly Suborner's Stink.-'
> 
> and,
> 
> "At the same time, he smoaks that the Learned English D.- or
> Fang, as he now apparently wishes to be known,- in introducing
> them thus, is pursuing an entirely personal End.
> 
> 'Angelo said there'd be a Package for me?'
> 'Quotha! Am I the Evening Coach'
> 
> "The two rummage about in the Shadows." [25.26]
> 
> and [GR, 526.22]
> 
> "What's the deal?"
> "A minor piracy, Pick up one package for me
> while I cover you."
> 
> 
> again, MD 685.26
> 
> Mason can think of no way to ask the obvious Question,
> as he did of the Learned Dog, and has been reluctant to
> of the Frenchman's Duck. Now, withal, Time for this grows
> short.
> 
> once more, MD 683.34
> 
> ...in a Cycle belonging to some Engine whose higher
> Assembly and Indeed Purpose, they are never, except
> for infrequent Glimpses, quite able to make out.
> 
> 
>