Boeing manuals

[pynchonoid]

You guys ought to pay more attention to Pynchon Notes,
and that note I posted here some time ago from The
Memory Hole website:

Forthcoming:

A Trove of New Works by Thomas Pynchon? The Bomarc
Service News Rediscovered

<http://w3.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/forthcom.html>

You're welcome,
Doug


--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
> To: "jordan halsey" <jhalsey at sbcglobal.net>;
> <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 11:50 AM
> Subject: Re: Boeing manuals
> 
> 
> > Sorry, none from me, but I'm assuming you've seen
> ...
> > 
> >
>
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_together.html
> > 
> 
> There's a dead link on that site which should lead
> to Richard Lane's Pynchon Files (which are gone),
> but here's the url to find that site saved at the
> Wayback Machine:
> 
> Boeing, Boeing:
>    On February 22 1960, Thomas Pynchon began work
> for the Boeing Airplane Corporation in Seattle,
> Washington. During his final year at Cornell,
> Pynchon had published "The Small Rain" in 'The
> Cornell Writer', (not too hard a sell since he was
> on the editorial board), and "Mortality and Mercy in
> Vienna" to the Spring issue of Epoch, also published
> by the University, and edited by one of his English
> teachers Baxter Hathaway. Finishing Cornell, 2nd or
> 3rd in his class, he stayed in Ithaca for the
> Summer, before moving to New York and staying with
> friends in Greenwich Village and Riverside Drive,
> rather than home with his parents close at hand in
> Oyster Bay, Long Island. 
> During this time, short stories were submitted. One
> went to James Silberman at the Dial magazine, who
> did not publish Pynchon, but referred him to an
> agent, Candida Donadio. She represented Nelson
> Algren who's work was featured in the first issue of
> The Dial in Fall '59. With Donadio's support and
> name recognition, she was also agent for the still
> hot Joseph Heller, "Lowlands" was sent to New World
> Writing. Corlies Smith (who would later edit "V."
> and would feature in Pynchon's career until at least
> the eighties), and his fellow magazine editors chose
> to publish the story in it's 16th issue, in 1960.
> Smith has said, he believed it is the first story
> for which Pynchon was paid. On reading other
> stories, the publishers were offered, an as yet
> un-finished, un-titled novel, plot unseen for $500
> advance and $1,000 on completion. The advance was to
> facilitate the move from New York to Seattle. 
>   
>    Pynchon at some point in 1960 moved into a rear 
> apartment at 4709 Ninth Ave., N.E. in the University
> district of Seattle. This meant a commute of about
> ten mile to Boeing Aerospace Operations at E.
> Marginal Way. Boeing have denied that Pynchon was
> ever an employee, since they can find no records.
> However, the Boeing internal directories, shown here
> for the first time, show the exact nature of
> Pynchon's work. 
> 
> For the year 1960, Pynchon didn't feature in any
> directory, being both new and probably missing the
> publication of the guide. The first recorded post he
> held was with the Bomarc Service Information Unit,
> which included the Bomarc Service News magazine. As
> described to Files, technical writing at Boeing for
> the Bomarc project was 'by the book'. Work was
> assigned, the subject studied, for example a
> loading-pin mechanism, then a visit was made to the
> on site manufacturing and application of the pin, a
> chat with the design engineers, then the writing up
> of the paper, using a Boeing style-book as
> reference, before editorial approval.
>
http://web.archive.org/web/20010611100406/http://www.pynchonfiles.com/Boeing,Boeing.htm
> 
> Otto
> 
> > --- jordan halsey <jhalsey at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Somebody informed me that someone was to publish
> > > the technical manuals Pynchon wrote for Boeing
> but
> > > I have been unable to locate any data. Any Info?
> > 
> 


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