ATDTDA (14): A little ramshackle for a time machine, 401-405

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Thanks, Dave.  I must have read it in one of the critical essay collections.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Sent: Aug 10, 2007 1:20 PM
>To: kelber at mindspring.com
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: ATDTDA (14): A little ramshackle for a time machine, 401-405
>
>On 8/10/07, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> I read an essay (totally forget name, author) re: Brigadier Pudding's strange appetite in GR.  The author related this to his quasi-nostalgia for the carnage of blood, mud, shit and putrescence that was WWI.  The Chums may just be getting a good whiff of the impending war.
>
>Fussell, Paul. "IX. Persistence and Memory" in: The Great War and
>Modern Memory. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, United
>States [1975]: 310-334 [328-34].
>
>Fussell, Paul. "The Brigadier Remembers" in: Pynchon: A Collection of
>Critical Essays. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Prentice-Hall, Englewood
>Cliffs, New Jersey, United States [1978]: 213-219. Article originally
>published in The Great War and Modern Memory as IX. Persistence and
>Memory [1975]: 310-334 [328-34].
>
>Fussell, Paul. "The Brigadier Remembers" in: Critical Essays on Thomas
>Pynchon. Ed. Richard Pearce. G.K. Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, United
>States [1981]: 213–219.
>
>http://www.vheissu.info/biblio/namen.php?p=292
>
>I actually met Paul Fussell once.  Having never seen, much let met,
>him, his wife came up to me at work and said, have you seen my
>husband? as if I'd know who her husband was.  Turned out, in the end,
>I did.  I still have his card in my copy of TGW&MM  ...