Watergate and GR epigraph: source

[John Carvill]

Thanks for that link Tore.

> Sorry for not responding to this earlier (I was in bed sleeping, with
the > rest of Europe). 

Big bed :-)


It's funny how this thread has spun off in the direction it has. I hold
my hands up and admit I totally misinterpreted what Moody was saying. On
the question of Watergate refs in GR, I reckon Paul M has it right that
'Watergate' as the world came to know it, hadn't really unfurled by the
time Pynchon would have been making any final adjustments. On the other
hand, what Dave posted...

<< By Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, October 10, 1972; Page A01

FBI agents have established that the Watergate bugging incident stemmed
from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on
behalf of President Nixon's re-election and directed by officials of the
White House and the Committee for the Re-election of the President....>>

....is worth noting. Ok the whole thing wasn't out in the open by then
but by Oct 72 we have a reference to Nixon's White House running "a
massive campaign of political spying and sabotage".


Now, getting back to The Ice Storm, who wouldn't like to have seen
Sigourney Weaver doing more with that whip?

Cheers
JC









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