Pynchon at Boeing

[pynchonoid]

The BSN article (A Trove of New Works by Thomas
Pynchon? The Bomarc Service News Rediscovered by
Adrian Wisnicki) in the current issue of Pynchon Notes
left me wondering if Pynchon got the Boeing job
specifically to learn about the missile for something
he was planning to write (which became Gravity's
Rainbow), or if that was serendipity and his
assignment (writing about the missile) helped inspire
a novel about the V-2, and I was wondering how he got
the job in the first place. I'm guessing, if he didn't
have a family connection to it, perhaps somebody at
Cornell or the Navy helped him. I would be surprised
to learn that he pursued the job because he wanted to
help the national defense effort, I think of him more
as a kind of spy, in the belly of the beast to learn
and expose the truth -- but that may just be my
romantic projection; maybe he really was a patriot
ardently supporting M.A.D. doctrine. 


	
		
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