Pynchon's New Book?
David Marc Fischer
davemarc at panix.com
Sat Jun 17 14:10:53 CDT 2006
The course of the Chicago River was reversed, too.
d.
> there was a case of a UFO-like incident in Chicago in the late 1890s about
> rumors of sightings of airships
> the sausage king of Chicago was accused of killing his wife and using her
> body as part of his livelihood; as u can imagine people didn't eat alot of
> his product in the city
> the opening of a famous observatory right over the border in Wisconsin
> dracula was published in 1897
>
> more to come..shit i eve dreamed about chicago last night
>
> psyched
>
> rich
>
>
> On 6/17/06, S. S. <ethocin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 17/06/06, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> > "Turn of the century" also misses the events of 1886 in Haymarket
>> Square
>> -- The first May Day march, anarchist rallies, bomb thrown at the
>> police,
>> riots, execution of anarchist leaders -- seems surprising Pynchon would
>> want
>> to miss out on all of that.
>> >
>> > Laura
>>
>> Yes, in the same way that "California in the eighties" leaves no room
>> for the zany hippiedom of the sixties, and yet, somehow, it's all in
>> Vineland anyway.
>>
>> S.
>>
>
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