Meat man Pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

On Jun 22, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> 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.

This would correspond with  the Slothrops:

"They began as fur traders, cord-wainers, salters and smokers of bacon,"
p. 27


>
> 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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