MDDM Ch. 58 Young Nathe

[Michael Crowley]

On the more biographical front: young Tom may very well have had a job
similar to Nathan's--his father was in charge of roads and surveying for
the county, wasn't he? (I forget his exact title).  So it's possible that
Pynchon found himself working on a county road crew during the summers
between years at Cornell.  I can't recall any direct evidence to support
this, but I've always read Benny Profane's experinces on the road crew as
semi-autobigraphical.


Mike Crowley
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crowley at arches.uga.edu