Back to the Future

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

               Paul Mackin:
               The Oyster Bay Pynchons  might not have had a lot of 
               money relative to their namesakes out in Newport but 
               they raised the most famous Pynchon of them all.

As I recall, T.R. IV was a surveyor---decent money, but Oyster Bay ain't no 
Scarsdale. Still, if our boy gets started up by looking into history books---is 
it safe to say he's read a couple two three?---he's gonna run into the family 
name repeatedly, particularly what with the books found in places like 
Cornell in the '50's. Loads of what I'm finding on-line comes from Harvard.
And from there Tommy looks into R & D and contracts associated 
with the family name, T.R.III's science chops, and before you know it, 
the boy's babbling on and on about Agfa and I.G. Farben, preterites and 
signs and wonders revealed in the sky.