Back to the Future

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

            Paul Mackin:
            Seems to me however from the way Robin has 
            described it that the object of the exercise would 
            be to try in some way to tie various "disinheritances" 
            and losses within the pages of the novels to  
            Pynchon & Company losses, George M.'s losses, 
            Tom's losses, other P  losses.

This is not an exercise. There is no single volume of the
'The Pynchons, from William to Thomas R.', there is no text
entitled "Pynchon & Company", there is no book out there that 
records the up and down curve of this obviously influential family
or the up and down curve of Pynchon & Company. It's necessary
American history. Cooking up the first book to be ceremonially burned 
on these shores is a historic event of great enough significance as to 
demand proper documentation. The Waste Doctrine and its evolution
derserves a text of its own. We've got one useless lit-crit dissembly
after another, pure mantric gobbledy-goop and unreadable riffs on 
Po-Mo cuckoo-cloud incomprehensibilities, when a twenty page 
exegesis on Pynchon v. Stearns would tell us more than a decade's 
worth of pontification on signifiers and signification. Who are these 
Pynchons? What "Stearns" are we talking about? What is the long term 
significance of the Waste Doctrine? How does the Springfield Amory 
or the Springfield Aquaducts play upon these stories? Why all these
defense contracts? Why all these spys? Why all this encryption?
The article that started this thread---"Back to the Future"---goes on
and on how disconnected everything is in Against the Day. I'm pointing 
out what should have been figured out as the obvious connections by now.

And I won't know the real purpose of the 'Excercise' till I read the history.
Who knows where the hell we'll end up? It sure ain't gonna be "Pynchons 
good guys, everybody else bad guys", it just ain't gonna shake out that 
way, sorry. There was a time they were members of the Elect, you know.
And Friend Tom ain't exactly 'Lost'. Oh, and by the way, thanks Paul for 
Tommy Boy's Genealogical link:  http://tinyurl.com/ehgqn

That'll ought to save me loads of time.