MDDM Ch. 57 Joe Kennedy in the Falklands?
jbor
jbor at bigpond.com
Sun Jun 9 16:48:47 CDT 2002
> 565.35 Cap'n Kennedy ... H.M.S. *Coventry* ?
I'll go out on a limb and say that, on the balance of the evidence in the
text, I *don't* think Pynchon is referring to JFK's dad (or RFK) or the ship
that was sunk during the Falklands War here.
http://www.btinternet.com/~broadsword82/index.htm
If Pynchon were, then, in my opinion, the allusions would be gratuitous.
There have been quite a few Captain Kennedys, I'd hazard, and several HMS
Coventrys. That JFK's clan and the Falklands ship share the name is purely a
coincidence, in my reading of this text.
As a reader I'm consciously deciding *not* to make the connections,
"obvious" though they might be.
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