Pynchon's New Book?

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 18/06/2006:

> What I fear is 800 pages on Walter von Hagen Schlagen, Swiss 
> discoverer of
> silver-plating and collector of lichens, written in yodels.

Yep, "readable plot" doesn't give much away at all. Pynchon's plots are 
all "readable", whatever that means.

The rumoured Mothra/Godzilla novel from the '60s ended up as the Chipco 
stomping and UFO scenes in Vineland, and the "Japanese insurance 
adjustor" is Takeshi, isn't it? ( A lot of Vineland is off-cuts, which 
is one of the reasons why it doesn't hang together particularly well.)

The supposed "Chicago, 1897" setting might be no more than the framing 
narrative like the Pennsylvania drawing room in M&D.

Michael Naumann's still seems the most reliable prediction (Naumann 
leaked, a few years ago now, that he assisted Pynchon in his research 
about "a Russian mathematician [who] studied for David Hilbert in 
Göttingen", i.e. Sofia Kovalevskaya).

I'd be expecting something on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel

Einstein, the Copenhagen dudes ....

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