'Togetherness'

[Mark Wright AIA]

Harrr, 'e was off after his own White Whale --- what 'grand hooded
phantom' might have drifted through his dreams? Funny tha' submarines
don't play much more than a comic role in 'is boooks, i'nt'i? 

When was the first nuclear missile sub launched? Maybe if he'd have
joined the work force a few years later he'd have gone to work for
Electric Boat in Groton CT rather than Boeing in Seattle. 

Mark

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On a related topic, I assume Pynchon joined the Navy
> at least in part to get out in the world and gather
> experience to inform his creative writing, recognizing
> that he may have had additional reasons. Given the way
> he works details of military life into his earliest
> published work, I think it's safe to say he went in
> with the intent to write about it. Of course I don't
> know that from the horse's mouth, and it doesn't
> exclude the possibility that he had other reasons for
> enlisting.


		
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