another Pynchon mention

[pynchonoid]

http://www.thememoryhole.org/lit/pynchon-boeing.htm

"[...] But one portion of Pynchon's work has almost
completely eluded capture. From February 1960 to
September 1962, Pynch was employed by Boeing, where he
wrote technical articles that were only circulated
within the company (and perhaps to some of Boeing's
clients, which, in this case, would be the US and
Canadian militaries). Both of his positions were in
nuclear missile programs--first with the Bomarc
Service Information Unit and later with the Minuteman
Field Support Unit. The only one of these articles
that has ever surfaced is "Togetherness," because it
was reprinted in the Air Force magazine Aerospace
Safety.

The rest of the articles remain in Boeing's archives
and are the intellectual property of that corporation.
Hoping to find out more, I emailed Boeing's historian,
Michael J. Lombardi. This was his reply on 25 February
2003:


"Here is all we know on Pynchon.

Thomas Pynchon did write articles for a monthly Boeing
field service publication that ran during the 50s and
60s. Unfortunately there is no documentation or
by-lines, so it is very difficult to determine which
articles were written by Pynchon. 

Recently we allowed a literary researcher to aquire
copies of the publications in an effort to determine
which articles are Pynchon's. The researcher was going
to write a book - so you might want to keep watch for
it."


I wrote back to Lombardi, asking him for the name of
the researcher, but he replied that he no longer has
that information.

We can only hope that this literary sleuth can
identify Pynch's articles and drag this unseen work by
a literary master out of the memory hole. [...] "

...enjoy!

-Doug


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