Inspirations for the Chums of Chance

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!  Cf. ...

"John Kennedy's role model James Bond was about to
make his name by kicking third-world people around,
another extension of the boy's adventure tales a lot
of us grew up reading." (SL, "Intro," p. 11)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=72588

--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> ". . . .In school they got brainwashed, like all
> of us, into believing the Myth of the American
> Inventor---Morse and his telegraph, Bell and his
> telephone, Edison and his light bulb, Tom Swift
> and his this or that. . . ."
> 
> COL49, pg 70


 
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