The Kenosha Kid

[Dave Monroe]

Wow, good eye there, thanks.  To recap ...

http://uu.cx/pynchon/sodiumamytal.html

http://www.math.ucla.edu/~redacid/kenoshakid.html

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001288.html

http://themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/61.htm

http://www.majorweather.com/projects/000039.html

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/gr10.htm

And stumbled upon The Gravity's Rainbow Deathmarch 
...

http://cecilvortex.com/swath/the_gravitys_rainbow_deathmarch/index.html

And Cashiered! selected texts from the works of
Thomas Pynchon ...

http://uu.cx/pynchon/index.html

Anyway, I'm assuming Forbes Parkhill is the author of
"The Kenosha Kid," right?  So here goes.  E.g., ...

http://imdb.com/name/nm0662751/

http://genforum.genealogy.com/parkhill/messages/80.html

http://www.blongerbros.com/news/Lou_Arrest.asp

http://www.blongerbros.com/gang/grafters.asp

http://www.blongerbros.com/history/excerpts/wildest.asp

Scroll down here ...

http://users.ev1.net/~homeville/fictionmag/s997.htm#TOP

Continued here ...

http://users.ev1.net/~homeville/fictionmag/s998.htm#TOP

Some fantastic titles there, albeit no "Kenosha Kid"
yet, but ... but numerous references to Forbes
Parkhill, books, stories, articles, screenplays,
albeit none via Google to him AND "The Kenosha Kid"
(yet) ...

Thanks again, Pauls Mackin and DiFilippo ...

> Does the best TRP scholarship still find "The
> Kenosha Kid" to be "one of the outstanding enigmas"
> of GR, as Weisenburger calls it?  If so, consider
> this:  on another list I belong to, people
> contribute table-of-contents info for old pulp
> zines.  here's one just given:
>  
> From an eBay ToC scan
>  
> Western Rangers [v3 #3, August 1931] (Popular
> Publications Inc., 128pp +, 20 cents, pulp, cover
> by Don Hewitt)
>  
> 6 * The Kenosha Kid * Forbes Parkhill * nv

[...]

> Could TRP have merely been referencing a pulp hero
> all this time?

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