'Togetherness'

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy Otto

Forgive me, I've been out of the loop for a while and haven't been
following this, but:

Are you saying that Pynchon somehow knew that Crazy Ivan was putting
missiles into Cuba before Kennedy did? And that his leaving Boeing just
then had something to do with the Cuban missile crisis?

Or are you pointing out that his leaving Boing couldn't have had
anything to do with Cuba?

Or that the Russians moved into Cuba because that pesky Pynchon was
finally out of the way?

Mark

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:

> ----- 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
> 
> 


		
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