"Togetherness"

[pynchonoid]

Thanks for digging up the Miss Bomarc stuff, Dave.
Reminds me of the various trade show queens and "booth
girls" my father and his colleagues used to come up
with to grace their industry  trade shows and fairs
back in the late '50s, early '60s.

Meanwhile, adding what was lost in my botched editing
of this post before I hit Send:

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Whether or not Pynchon specifically sought out the
> job
> at Boeing 

in order to do research on missiles 

>when he went to work there he was already
> at work on the novel that came to be titled V.,
> according to archives (at the Wayback Machine) of
> Richard Lane's www.pynchonfiles.com -- a novel that
> features Yoyodyne and the V-2. Perhaps it's just a
> coincidence that Pynchon crossed the continental
> U.S.
> to take the job which just happened to give him a
> chance to be part of a support team for a missile
> not
> altogether unlike what he was writing about in his
> novel-in-progress. Then again, maybe he was able to
> network to and land the Boeing job as part of his
> ongoing research for V., research which seems to
> have
> spilled over into GR. 
>

Finally -- Keith, thanks very much for noting how
carefully I hedged my bets re the rank speculation
contained in this post. Given the facts on the record,
I don't think you have to go very far out on a limb to
assume that Pynchon,  pockets jingling thanks to the
advance he was paid for his first novel, went looking
for an opportunity to find out more about rockets and
found it in a writing job at Boeing, but of course
you're correct, Pynchon hasn't told us this
specifically.



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