The Harmless Yank Hobby

[Paul Mackin]

On Jun 9, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Ghetta Life wrote:

>
> I've just ordered *Catch-22*, having just finished and really  
> enjoyed *Something Happened*.   Looking forward to it.  It's nice  
> to learn of the Catch-22 GR reference, but why must this be framed  
> as hypertext?  Completely unnecesary and more or less useless.


>
> Ghetta

Intertext would have been sufficient.

I think Umberto is just trying to point out how when you're reading  
along and are reminded of something else your've read elsewhere, it  
is kind of like a hyperlink to another location on a web site.

I do think a certain type of mannerism we frequently find in Pynchon-- 
having to do with funny idea juxtapositioning and word associations-- 
was used a lot in Catch-22.

Like going to the  Little Boy's  Room because the Men's Room was  
full. And, yes, the Kenosha Kid variations. More complex by an order  
of magnitude than anything in Heller. (the latter I mean)

Just located the Major Major Major Major chapter in Catch-22.

"Who promoted Major Major?"

Couldn't find anything to excel in so he excelled in school.

That sort of thing.




>
>> From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>>
>> From Umberto Rossi, "The Harmless Yank Hobby: Maps, Games,  
>> Missiles and Sundry Paranoia in Time Out of Joint and Gravity's  
>> Rainbow," Pynchon Notes 52-53 (Spring-Fall 2003): 106-23 ...
>>
>> "You never did the Kenosha Kid" will be much clearer If we read  
>> that part of the text as a hypertextual/intertextual link to  
>> Joseph Heller's Catch-22
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