From a correspondent ...

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 7 15:34:58 CST 2007


--- Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Pynchon was a technical writer, fired by the same
> monstrous pointy-headed boss under whom I suffered
> at Boeing in Seattle.

[...]


> Doggett left Boeing under a cloud, when he was 3
> budgets deep in ponzi-funding. he went to work as a
> manager at the famously mismanaged Nuclear Power
> installation which I remember by the pronunciation
> of its acronym "Whoops!" (WWPS or the like, Western
> Washington Power System, or something like that).
> 
> I'd guess that he ended up after that at, perhaps,
> Haliburton, or FEMA.

"If you're wondering where he's gone, look among the
successful academics, the Presidential advisers, the
token intellectuals who sit on boards of directors. He
is almost certainly there. Look high, not low." (GR,
Pt. IV, p.749)


 
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