[pynchon] against the day

[Ande]

Just to be a bit nit-picky--it isn't a talking dog, it is a reading dog 
with expressive eyebrows and a good interpreter....

gp wrote:

> I think it's believable that for all his encyclopedic knowledge,
> Pynchon is still capable of making a mistake.  Whether intentional or
> not, the multi-generational aspect of AtD renders the anachronism
> somewhat irrelevant in any case, and the point remains.  And of course
> there's that talking dog... but that does, at least, have its roots in
> the day if only in its mythology.
>
> On 1/27/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > From: alan jc <ajcauk at yahoo.co.uk>
>> >
>> > Crosswords only appeared in the newspaper in 1913 and that was in the
>> > New York Times.
>>
>> Sometimes, I think this is like complaining about all the noise
>> generated by the in vacuo spacecraft in the Star wars films, it's
>> beside the point, given how much in the work obviously ISN'T factual,
>> but ... but what I often find when I look up terms that pop out at me
>> here is, they often turn out to be employed anachronistically (e.g.,
>> Norfolk terrier in M&D), or are of fortuitous coinage (e.g., passerine
>> in Lot 49) ...
>>
>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=60179
>>
>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0110&msg=60343
>>
>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59200
>>
>> I suspect Pynchon is aware of this in either case, seeing as he seems
>> already to be deploying etymological information, making wither that
>> anachronism or serendipity possibly significant itself ...
>>
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