The Ice Storm & GR

[Paul Mackin]

On Aug 31, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> Well, what I came around to was, even if that
> June-to-February time frame doesn't leave a whole
> lotta time for "last minute" changes, there was a good
> two-thirds of the year where the scandal was bubbling
> under, though not hidden from, public view.  That
> being said, though, Pynchon had alerady years earlier
> demonstrated a certain disdain for Nixon, so ...


I don't think we are talking about the  same thing and sorry to be  
argumentative but as I see it (the point I was trying  to  make)   
there was NO time frame at all, in fact there was a negative time  
frame--between March 19, 1973 and February 28, 1973.

Until March 19, 1973,  there was no "Watergate" story worth Pynchon's  
time to report. The "second rate burglary," as it was latter to be  
called was, and for many months, remained pure dog-bites-man. It  was  
at most just a bit more Nixon skullduggery, no more important than  
everything else that was going on. There had to develop over time (a  
pretty long time) a man-bites-dog follow on. When that came, I and  
some of the  rest of us I would guess, were already reading Gravity's  
Rainbow.

You are certainly correct that there was plenty of damning stuff  
Pynchon did know and could write  about Nixon.




>
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think you are disagreeing with me--that
>> there was no time or conceivable wish on Pynchon's
>> part to mention something that wasn't seen as
>> significant until John McCord's sentence-bargaining
>
>> revelation on March 19 (and Judge Sirica's decision
>> to look into it)....
>
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