The Ice Storm & G

[Dave Monroe]

I'm acknowledging that it was possible, at least. 
Note that the GOP links were front-page news as early
as June 19th, 1972, at least to The Washington Post
...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2002/05/31/AR2005111001228.html

And by October 10th ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2002/06/03/AR2005111001232.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/watergate/chronology.htm

I can't even remember what the initial claim her was,
or who made it, it was perhaps that the Pt. IV
epigraph plus the Zhlubb passages might have been
provoked by Watergate, but, of course, as I pointed
out then and have again noted since, even The Crying
of Lot 49 contains anti-Nixonisms.  Despite RMN's, uh,
threat?, Pynchon, among many, many others, still had
Nixon to kick around for over a decade ...

But, again, and again, in all fairness, there was
time, if not for a hundred, at least for a few visions
and revisions, so ...

--- James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:

> So are we imagining here that having spent years
> on the novel, TRP, during the months between
> delivery to publisher and final publication, made
> subtle changes to refer in code to a scandal that
> had yet to become apparent to almost anybody?

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