LPPM MMV "Siegel"

[pynchonoid]

 T:
> Why do you think Pynchon named the  protagonist of
> MMV after Jules
> Siegel? 

I don't really know.  I do know that Pynchon gave the
protagonist of
MMV the same name.

It's also true that Pynchon and Siegel remain in
contact for some time after the writing of this story,
if JS is to be believed -- he claims he visited
Pynchon in Lower California in the mid-60s while
Pynchon was writing Gravity's Rainbow.  No way to know
for certain if Pynchon's relationship with JS has
anything to do with the way P characterizes Siegel in
MMV, of course. But it's interesting that he chooses
his friend's name for the character; he could have
chosen any name he wanted, after all, so why choose to
put his friend in his story (if, indeed, that is what
Pynchon has done)?

How do you know that Pynchon has never named a
character after one of his friends?  Can you provide
textual support, from a Pynchon work, to support this
assertion? What makes you think Pynchon has chosen
this route, given that it's been alleged for a long
time that Pynchon has in fact put people he knows into
his fiction, and the fact that this practice is common
among writers of fiction?




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