'Togetherness'

[kent mueller]

Thanks for the comps on the site, and yup, as Dave responded before I could,
he and I cross paths at least once or twice a week here in the secret hip
stronghold of Milwaukee (vast Williamsburg of the West). Most recently last
night in a lovely bar where the TV sets are always set to static between
stations.

I didn't mean to be flip about P's employment at Boeing, certainly all
writers make hay from whatever they encounter, and it's a world full of odd
coincidences to be sure, just meant that once he had a degree there wasn't
much need to spend the summer working on a Long Island road crew again! Was
his progression Cornell - Navy - Boeing or Navy - Cornell - Boeing?  And I
do wonder how he supported himself between Boeing and the publication of V.

                   
Kent 

Visit KM art's web site at http://www.execpc.com/~artkm/

> From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:27:34 -0700 (PDT)
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: 'Togetherness'
> 
>> I suppose the notion that Pynchon was working at
>> Boeing for a paycheck is
>> simply beyond the pale.
> 
> I expect he had multiple reasons for taking the job; I
> don't know enough about his biography to know if he
> got help from family or friends to support himself
> while writing, or if he had to do that all on his own.
> What he learned at Boeing has a direct impact on V.,
> GR, and COL49.  It would be interesting to know if he
> came to Boeing with the idea to write about the V-2
> already in mind, or if that was something that came to
> mind after he got to Boeing.
> 
> 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.
> 
>> Visit KM art's web site at
>> http://www.execpc.com/~artkm/
> 
> Nice site. Sounds like you may be in Dave Monroe's
> neck of the woods.
> 
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