GRGR: Heller and influence

[Joe Allonby]

On 11/2/05, Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> As I read the second chapter (pp. 7 - 16), I wonder how much of an
> influence Heller's _Catch-22_ would have been an influence on Pynchon's
> writing at this stage of the writing process (assuming, of course -- and
> it's not necessarily a correct assumption) that these earlier chapters may
> have been written in part sometime in the early- to mid-Sixties. The
> exchanges between Pirate and Teddy Bloat, especially on p. 8, seem to have
> that Heller tone (e.g., "Bloat is sitting on the floor, working the banana
> peel into a pajama lapel for a boutonniere"). I wonder if, in early stages
> of the writing process, Pynchon envisioned -- in part, at least -- a sort of
> absurdist send-up of soldiers al la C-22.
>  Sorry, just babbling while I eat my lunch and listen to The Stooges.
>  Tim
>


Wait! Isn't liking Catch 22 a symptom of smoking too much pot in the
sixties?

Look out, honey 'cause I'm usin' technology....
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