Pynchonian explorers

[Lary Wallace]

I should probably know that but for some reason I don't, or didn't. I'll have to read more about this. 

LLW


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From: Peter Fellows-McCully <pfm at anam.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 7:19:47 AM
Subject: RE: Pynchonian explorers



As far as I recall, about half of the Crowley "Autohagiography" concerned climbing expeditions - mostly Crowley describing his brilliant feats and denouncing the incompetence of his colleagues.

pfm

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From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net [mailto:robinlandseadel at comcast.net]
Sent: Tue 11/21/2006 12:05
To: Lary Wallace; Peter Fellows-McCully; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Pynchonian explorers

As a matter of fact, he was a mountain climber of some repute.
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From: Lary Wallace <pytheas76 at yahoo.com>
> I didn't know Crowley was an explorer. What's the deal there?
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> From: Peter Fellows-McCully <pfm at anam.com>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:45:33 AM
> Subject: RE: Pynchonian explorers
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> Aleister Crowley for me.
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> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org on behalf of Lary Wallace
> Sent: Tue 11/21/2006 06:26
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Pynchonian explorers
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> On the AtD wiki, I just saw a photo of the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen.
> Does he make a cameo in AtD or something? I certainly hope so. Like a lot of
> readers drawn to Pynchon, I share his fascination with explorers, both fictional
> and actual, and so I don't think it's at all inappropriate to this discussion to
> ask everyone who their favorite (real-life) explorers are. I'm a Richard Byrd
> man myself.
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