'Togetherness'

[Otto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "pynchonoid" <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: 'Togetherness'


> The notion that Pynchon works for Boeing for patriotic
> reasons or because he wants to see nuclear weapons
> safely used in war is absurd. Pynchon's working
> underground, doing research; what he learns at Boeing
> feeds into _Gravity's Rainbow_ which is a searing
> indictment of the way They harness missile and nuclear
> technology for use in a War that Never Ends.
>

We cannot say for sure that he's been only doing "reseach" at Boeing, but I
think it's at least safe to say that he did *not quit* his Boeing-job for
patriotic reasons.

He's been working for Boeing from "February 2, 1960, to September 13, 1962."
(Wisnicki, p. 9)
Is it a coincidence that this September 1962 was the month the first SS-4
MRBMs arrived at Cuba and the Cuban Missile Crisis began?

"On September 15, 1962, The Poltava, a Soviet large-hatch cargo ship, docks
at the port of Mariel, Cuba, carrying the first SS-4 MRBMs to be deployed."
http://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/subject/missile-crisis/ch02.htm

Otto