SLSL "TSR" some notes & questions

[Paul Mackin]

William Zantzinger wrote:

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>I don't know how you can surmise that from a name.
>When I think of Roach, I think of the burnt butt end
>of a marijuana cigarette.  I kinda think Pynchon is
>alluding, in a hip sort of way, to T.S. Eliot. 
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The reference is obviously to the WW II call upon the movie industry to 
make short films to promote armed forces enlistments. Ronald Reagan was 
a prominent participant. The old Hal Roach Studio (Our Gang, etc.) 
facilities were taken over for production. Hence the operation was 
nicknamed Fort Roach.

Farfetched connection? Now wait just a minute. Pynchon was signalling 
the menace to Peace and Goodness that RR was to become. Our Gang. Get it?

P.