Inspirations for the Chums of Chance

[Mark Kohut]

Am I the only one who thinks TRP may have worked on this novel much
  longer than 10 years?.....There was his early letter to his editor speaking of
  three ambitious books....one of which was GR, we must presume......
   
  The others?......Vineland and Lot 49 seem different somehow than do GR
  and ATD....with Mason & Dixon even more different (sic) which I would say
  might have been the secind he was working on back at the time of the letter.
   
  
Then I vote for ATD as the third.....Lot 49 & Vineland somehow more inspired and
  about certain decades in America than the overarchingness of these others.

rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
  just gotta giggle "Tom Swift"...

10 plus years per book recently
swift he ain't

  On 1/18/07, John Burgess < jfb1138 at yahoo.com> wrote:        Nor could one miss the reference to Tom Swift's aging that's actually made in AtD!  

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From: David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com>
To: David Morris < fqmorris at gmail.com>
Cc: Otto < ottosell at googlemail.com>; Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 3:51:57 PM 
Subject: Re: Inspirations for the Chums of Chance

On 1/18/07, David Morris < fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:    I'd say you've found a good candidate.  It does SOUND like the Chums
of Chance," silly and stilted and overly innocent.  
But I think that voice is used very sparingly by Pynchon.  Most of the time, the Chums (and their narrator) are not nearly so silly or stilted.  I agree, though, that Tom Swift  is unavoidable as an inspiration.  I mean, suppose you're Pynchon and decide to use a "boys' adventure novel" theme -- you couldn't avoid Tom Swift if you tried. 














 
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