SLSL "TSR" some notes & questions

[Paul Mackin]

I guess Dave Meury had already played with this idea. Sorry.

P.

Paul Mackin wrote:

> 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?
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> P.
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