farina/zuniga

[Dave Monroe]

Was going to raise this myself, thanks ...

--- "Burns, Erik" <Erik.Burns at dowjones.com> wrote:
> foax:
> 
> am reading _Vineland_ again (first re-read since i
> read it on publication) ahead of the VLVL and was
> surprised by what appears an obvious connection
> between Hector and Richard Farina - made eerie by
> the beer-riders midnight madness. [...] i know in
> the past many (er, some) have suggested Zoyd =
> Pynchon, an avenue of investigation that would be
> strengthened to some extent if Hector = Farina.

Even on the level of ethnicities, syllables, sounds
(Tom Pynchon/Zoyd Wheeler, Richard Farina/Hector
Zuniga, sorry, don't know how to type that tilde, not
up to the ol' cut 'n' paste).  The nitpicky on either
end here will raise objections of ideology and/or
biography, but, again, foax, excrutiatingly detailed
one-to-one correspondences are not quite of the
essence in such situations.  More an initial
structuring principle, perhaps.  Cf. other Pynchonian
straight man/dude duos, Mason & Dixon, Stencil &
Profane, Blicero & Slothrop, I don't know, m-maybe
even Oedipa & Pierce.  By the way ...

http://www.masterstech-home.com/The_Library/Font_Samples/Font_Indices/Image_Pages/O/OedipaMaas.html

... though I get the feeling that there's more of Tom
Pynchon projecting himself both a and as world in any
given instance.  But, hey, I'll let that all play
itself out as it inevitably will here.  Doug, David,
Paul, Robert?  Et al.?  Call me Cassandra ...
 
> a-and is anyone else weirded out by the fact that
> Zoyd is 'Zoyd Herbert "Dubya"?'

But before we're subjected to a desolate--not to
mention unnecessary--disquisition on anachronism here
... well, no, nothing I can do, sorry ...

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