AtDTDA (7) 186. 1-19

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Monte:

>You make a strong case for conscious allusion to 'High Plains Drifter' --
>I'd forgotten about the red paint in that.
>
>As for simultaneous midget sheriffs in 1973... hell, that was a year when
>you couldn't turn around without tripping over a midget sheriff.

Yeah, there was certainly no shortage of midget sheriffs in 1973 (no pun 
intended).

After seeing 'High Plains Drifter', John Wayne famously wrote an indignant 
letter to Eastwood, "objecting that this was not what the spirit of the West 
was all about" (quoted from All Movie Guide). I wonder whether he sent a 
similar letter to Pynchon - but perhaps he didn't have the time to read 
Gravity's Rainbow. After all, in 1973 Wayne was busy starring in both Denis 
Sanders' documentary 'The Great American West' and Burt Kennedy's 'The Train 
Robbers' (can't seem to recall any midget sheriffs in either....)

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