Meat man Pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

GR is full of pork references but the thing that came to mind for me
was the Byron the Bulb passage wherein is described a collusion
between the Electric Cartel and the Meat Cartel to leave more fat in
the processed meat. thus reducing the amount of  tallow available
for candles, upping demand for  bulbs, without due regard for the
danger of increased heart attacks.

I suppose the meat William's operation packed was pork.

On Jun 22, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> Accustomed to the literary games played throughout
> Pynchon’s postmodern works, there was speculation that
> the entire gag alluded to his first American ancestor,
> William Pynchon, who sailed with John Winthrop’s fleet
> and founded Springfield, Massachusetts in 1630....
>
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/ketzan_simpsons.htm
>
> William Slothrop
>
> William Pynchon is Thomas' colonial descendant, born
> in Springfield, Essex, England on 11 October 1590. He
> married Anne Agnes Andrew about 1623. The family
> emigrated to New England on Winthrop's fleet of 1630,
> Anne dying soon after their arrival. A few years
> later, William married Frances Sanford of Dorchester.
> William was the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts
> and one of the Bay Colony's leaders until his
> publication of a book about justification and
> redemption, The Meritorious Price of our Redemption
> (1650)....
>
> http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/ety.html
>
> ONE MAN'S SEARCH TO LIVE LIFE ON HIS OWN TERMS
> WILLIAM PYNCHON OF SPRINGFIELD PLANTATION
>
> http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/pynchon.html
>
> Another Springfield First!
>
> The first book banned in the New England colonies was
> written by William Pynchon, founder of Springfield,
> Massachusetts
>
> http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/pynchon.html
>
> William Pynchon
>
> http://www.famousamericans.net/williampynchon/
>
> McIntyre, Ruth A.  William Pynchon:
>    Merchant and Colonizer.  Springfield, MA:
>    Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, 1961.
>
> And, for the record ...
>
> Agawam is located at 42°4′19″N,
> 72°38′39″W (42.071961, -72.644097). The
> city borders West Springfield, Massachusetts to the
> north ...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agawam,_Massachusetts
>
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Browsing the New Yorker files I  found something I
>> didn't know.
>>
>> The city of Springfield, Massachusetts, has honored
>> its leading founder, William Pynchon, by naming a
>> handsome history museum after him and in many other
>> ways, but, though everybdy pays tribute to him
>> as a pioneer settler in the Agawam country, the fact
>> he was the father of the meatpacking industry is
>> always politely overlooked.
>>
>> from a March 27, 1948,  New Yorker profile about
>> another meatpacker, Henry Blackman Sell. p.32
>
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