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[Paul Mackin]

rich wrote:

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

Also Hearst Marion Davies' something or other, according to Gore Vidal.  
Referred to this obliquely in the Plastic  Fiction article.


>  
> On 8/31/05, *RuudSaurins at aol.com <mailto:RuudSaurins at aol.com>* 
> <RuudSaurins at aol.com <mailto: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
>
>