Pynchon & Nabokov: 2 questions

[pynchonoid]

Thanks, Michel.  It's good to remember that Hollander,
Tomaske, and other scholars have done such good work
to uncover available facts to dispell various rumors
and myths that have accumulated around Pynchon.

--- Michel Ryckx <michel.ryckx at freebel.net> wrote:
[...]
> Herbert Gold, who offered Pynchon and Fariña access
> to a New York 
> literary connection, [...] 

Gold is the father of a close friend, I met him at her
wedding back in the very early '80s.  A nice guy and
it was no surprise to learn, years ago, that he had
helped Pynchon.

> (Pynchon is said to blockletter personal notes, as
> do legions of the 
> cohort who were taught handwriting in that period.)

Still a common practice among undergrads by the time I
made it to college in '70, and among my brothers
friends at Stanford.

>a member of 
>Pynchon's undergraduate cohort, Robert H. Eisenman
>(B. A. Cornell, 
>1958), now Chair of the Department of Religious
>Studies at Cal State 
>Long Beach

Eisenman is the author of a fascinating book that was
published several years ago, _James the Brother of
Jesus_, a monumental tome that explores in great
detail how St. Paul "rewrote" the early Christian
story to make it more palatable for a Gentile
audience. 



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