Pynchon at Boeing

[Craig Smith]

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From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:30:24 -0700 (PDT)
To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Pynchon at Boeing

> 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. 

There's a lot of "romantic" projection going on around here, I'd guess. Maybe another thought: he was a young man whose political ideas were in flux? I hope none of us are born with our opinions and never change; that reeks of a lack of self-confidence.





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