re new novel: "full doomsday event" & events of 1893

[pynchonoid]

On another topic, I'm guessing Pynchon approved or
perhaps revised copy written by somebody at his
publisher's for that Book Description, although who
knows, maybe he's into marketing this one full bore
and wrote it himself.

Maybe M&D's Line curves around to become a Circle, in
honor of the first Ferris Wheel, at the Chicago show.

"Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair
of 1893 and the years 
just after World War I [...]"

...revisiting V. territory and the rest, One Big Novel
as I suggested after M&D appeared and we documented so
many references to his earlier novels in the group
reading here, I'm expecting the new novel to offer
similarly tight interconnections with his other books.

Tunguska event = Kirghiz Light?

"There  was an explosion that occurred at
60°55′N 101°57′E, near the Podkamennaya
(Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Evenkia,
Siberia, at 7:17 a.m. on June 30, 1908.

The explosion was caused most probably by the airburst
of a meteorite or comet 6 to 10 kilometers (4–6 mi)
above the Earth's surface. The energy of the blast was
later estimated to be between 10 and 15 megaton TNT.
It felled an estimated 60 million trees over 2,150
square kilometers (830 sq mi).

In recent history, the Tunguska event stands out as
one of the rare large-scale demonstrations that a full
doomsday event is a real possibility for the human
race." [...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1893

...  January 1 - Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar
[...]

missing 11 days?

[... January 17 - Intervention by the U.S. Marines in
Hawaii, resulting in overthrow of government of Queen
Liliuokalani of Hawaii ...

May 9 - First public demonstration of Edison's 1½ inch
system of Kinetoscope at the Brooklyn Institute. 

...      November 7 - Colorado women are granted the
right to vote. ...]


http://www.brainyhistory.com/years/1893.html

[. . .

February 1 Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie
studio (West Orange NJ)

February 2 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison
studio, West Orange, NJ 

June 21 1st Ferris wheel premieres, Chicago's
Columbian Exposition . . . ]

http://www.answers.com/topic/1893 offers this
Pynchonesque nugget:

Santiago Ramón y Cajal [b. Petilla de Aragon, Spain,
May 1, 1852, d. Madrid, October 18, 1934] proposes
that learning occurs as a result of increased
connections between neurons. He develops detailed
drawings of stained samples of brain tissue that
support this point of view. These will be published in
1894 through 1904 as Textura del Sistema Nervioso del
Hombre y los Vertebrados ("structure of the nervous
system in men and vertebrates"). See also  1906
Biology.

... and,

German pharmacist Felix Hoffman [b. January 21, 1868,
d. February 8, 1946], working for the Adolf von Bäyer
firm in Elberfeld, Germany, synthesizes aspirin
(acetyl salicylate). It is made by a variant of the
method used earlier by Hermann Kolbe to produce
salicylic acid, but aspirin is not as unfriendly to
the stomach lining as salicylic acid is. Hoffman's
motivation is to develop a treatment for his father's
rheumatoid arthritis. In 1899 aspirin will be first
used for arthritis, although it had been previously
used for fever and pain reduction in other diseases.
Aspirin is still among the most effective treatments
for arthritis although side effects, especially
stomach bleeding, limit its use. See also  1859
Chemistry.

... publication of:

Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1929): The Cliff-Dwellers. In
what has been described as the first significant
American urban novel, Fuller treats the daily
activities of workers in a Chicago skyscraper. 

Henry Adams: Memoirs of Marau Taaroa, Last Queen of
Tahiti. Based on Adams's encounter with a Tahitian
woman during his tour of the South Pacific in 1890,
the book chronicles Tahitian society before and after
Westernization. It shows Adams's interest in women and
their influence, a theme that would recur in
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartes.

Ida Wells-Barnett: The Reason Why the Colored American
Is Not in the Columbian Exposition--The
Afro-American's Contribution to Columbia Literature.
Wells-Barnett coauthored and printed this essay to
protest the exclusion of African American achievement
from the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.




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