KK2

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 15:48:59 CDT 2005


'smithers,. do I have a rocket in my pocket?'
 apropos of nothing but doesn't weissman call gottfried's butthole 
'rosebud'?
 rich

 On 8/31/05, RuudSaurins at aol.com <RuudSaurins at aol.com> wrote: 
> 
> Hoy! Hoy!
>  With regards to the origin of Pynchon's Kenosha Kid; wasn't the hometown 
> of young filmmaker Orson Welles issued some notoriety by the media 
> nicknaming him the "Kenosha Kid" as well ? A film enthusiast such as Pynchon 
> might have become familiarized with Welles' biography and discovered a name 
> that could double as the name of an imaginary swing-era dance craze that a 
> fictional character in a novel may, or may not have "did". Of course, I have 
> no idea whatsoever if the name from the comic book could have played any 
> role in nicknaming Mr Welles. Simply curious.
>   truly,
>  ruud
>
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