Unanswered questions about Byron the Blurb...

[Ya Sam]

Wow! That baloonist may well be one of the characters of the forthcoming 
novel.


>From: "Scott Badger" <lupine at ncia.net>
>To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>CC: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Unanswered questions about Byron the Blurb...
>Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:48:01 -0400
>
>
>Ya Sam:
>
>>Thanks for that post. Great attempt to channel the discussion back into 
>>the groove of AtD. I tried to dig some info on famous baloonists of the 
>>period and didn't get anything.
>
>GR 589
>"What did Andrée find in the Polar silence: what should we have heard?"
>
>Salomon Andrée led a failed, and fatal, attempt to reach the North Pole by 
>balloon from Spitzbergen in 1897.
>
>

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