Callipygian

[Paul Mackin]

On May 19, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> To the Editor:
>
> In a recent letter to the editor, Romain Gary asserts
> that I took the name "Genghis Cohen" from a novel of
> his to use in a novel of mine, The Crying of Lot 49.
> Mr. Gary is totally in error. I took the name Genghis
> Cohen from the name of Genghis Khan (1162-1227), the
> well-known Mongol warrior and statesman. If Mr. Gary
> really believes himself to be the only writer at
> present able to arrive at a play on words this
> trivial, that is another problem entirely, perhaps
> more psychiatric than literary, and I certainly hope
> he works it out.
>
> Thomas Pynchon,
>
> New York City.


Thanks, that's it!


>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20000824131346/pynchonfiles.com/cohn.htm
>
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_cohen.html
>
> http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/cl49/GengCo.html
>
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> I forget. Was the Pynchon the first to say "Ghengis
>> Cohen?" There was  some kind of controversy way
>> back some time.
>
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