Charles Hollander

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

just reread these...after all the references in them I will never again think of myself as well read

one thing that stuck out:
in the Tinasky one, 
 "Implausibly, Tinasky writes that she overheard Burton K. Wheeler once say to Kenneth Rexroth, "Don't forget that between the public and home plate is the backstop, and we're all part of the backstop." The barefaced unlikelihood (perfectly acceptable for a fiction writer) that the staid populist Wheeler would ever say any such thing to the flamboyant counter-cultural Rexroth should alert the staunchest Wanda supporter: this is a vintage Thomist parable."

but there is an episode in Rexroth's Autobiography where Senator LaFollette picks him up hitchhiking and does say that backstop thing 

(Hollander explains that Wheeler connects to LaFollette; also I never properly understood the "backstop" reference before reading the explanation in the Hollander piece)

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also the Lot 49 piece's explanation of Pierce Inverarity's name anticipates some of Glenn Scheper's theories and makes me think of the sort of loving attention to explaining the word "Peenemunde" in GR...

anyway, good stuff and thanks for putting them up!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Otto [mailto:ottosell at googlemail.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 10:09 AM
> To: 'Pynchon-L'
> Subject: Charles Hollander
> 
> Dave has mentioned Charles Hollander, who had asked me to put his
> articles and essays back on then web; so here they are:
> 
> Pynchon's Inferno
> http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/inferno.htm
> 
> Pynchon's Politics: The Presence of an Absence
> http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/ppolitics.htm
> 
> Abrams Remembers Pynchon
> http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/abrams.htm
> 
> Where's Wanda? The Case of the Bag Lady and Thomas Pynchon
> http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/wanda.htm
> 
> Jokes and Puns in Gravity's Rainbow
> http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/jokespuns.htm
> 
> I'm currently working on this, should be there completely soon:
> Pynchon, JFK and the CIA: Magic Eye Views of The Crying of Lot 49
> 
> Otto
>