LPPM MMV "Siegel"

[Terrance]

pynchonoid wrote:
> 
>  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)?

Jules gave his opinion on the matter. It's in the archives. Anyway, the
name fits the story if not the man. 


> 
> 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? 

Maybe he does. I don't know. My Bad. 




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?

Don't know. If you can provide an example other than Jules  it might be
worth talking about.