A little on the Stearns's a LOT on Pynchons

[grladams at teleport.com]

Hello

http://tiny.cc/V6BOZ tells about the furniture at the Pynchon homes,
including the bit about the glass pitcher (from the Ruggles side) on page
667. There's a Chippendale Clothes Press, which (I think it is the one..)
appears mysteriously in an article from the New York Times naming George
Mallory Pynchon as the seller in his later years, after he's moved out of
the Park Avenue house. Isn't there a desk in this fantastic article
somewhere? you check..
Jill

Original Message:
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From: Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:07:10 -0600
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: A little on the Stearns's a LOT on Pynchons


> and I have a waning vivaciousness about, the Stearns stuff, making this an
> inconclusive breadcrumb trail.

interesting, though.   Appreciate the work you've done...
the bio-background seems like a fertile field to be improving -
it stretches back & back, too...

this page http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_biography.html
mentions that there was a Pinco back in 1066 who was
part of the William the Conqueror political machine,

Got to sometime find out what a
"Per bend argent and sable
Three roundels with a border engrailed
All counter changed--
The crest, a tiger's head erased argent" looks like.

I found a book called "Matthews American Armoury and Blue Book"
printed in 1907 which has the Pynchon coat of arms in it ---
(no Baileys, not a one (-;) --- but not on a viewable snippet.

I like the image of the Pynchon clan throwing snowballs
and the desk with many drawers...where'd you learn about the
glass pitcher hand-blown, though?  or is that also in M&D and I missed it?

As you pointed out in one of the posts, "the reason other people
had so little land was that [people like Pynchons & Stearns] had so
much..."  - that social hierarchy, which many a Pynchon fan
is prone to question & find serious flaws with...

Contrarianly, it might be fun to try to trace
a crypto-Burkean-conservatism in the oeuvre.
I think such a theme could be written, but handily refuted.

...likewise it'd be more likely to find a rapprochement than
a continuation of enmity in the work of latter day Stearns (Eliot)
and TRP...or would it?  Maybe the obvious disagreement of
Lardass Levine with Eliot's position on rain signifies a continuation
of the dispute over water resources?!


Mike Bailey
"they seek him here, they seek him there,
his clothes are loud, but never square" - Kinks, Dedicated Follower of
Fashion

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