"Togetherness"

[joeallonby]

At the risk of putting the cart before the chicken here, might his ability
to write about rockets been an important qualification for pretty cool cushy
job in the aerospace/defense industry?

on 8/29/04 7:40 PM, pynchonoid at pynchonoid at yahoo.com wrote:

> 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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