V.

[Roman Kudryashov]

Not to be blatantly obvious, naive, or outdated by someone else's post
(I'm kinda new to the list, inexperienced, and catching up from T-day
break), are you suggesting, whereas "Gravity's Rainbow" and "Against
The Day" were written as with a basis of a study of TRP's family
history, "V." would be about him trying to figure out who he is in his
family and what exactly his history encompasses? Reading the "Been
Down So Long..." analysis someone posted here, would suggest so, if
the idea is applied to TRP:

" By his own admission, Fariña was still in the process of 'resolving
the conflict between Inside and Outside'...  " For amid those years
lay the agonizing self-definition that always goes into a first novel,
and behind that charming smile lurked haunting doubts and demons.
Richard had begun the novel in 1960, based largely on the experiences
of his college years and his travels. Widely dismissed today as an
amateurish tour-de-force or a distubing reminder of hipster
chauvinism, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me is most
illuminating not as a document of social history but as a
haunted-house ride into the mind of a great folk artist and
songwriter, a frightening Freudian-slippery slide into the soul "

I havent actually read V. but I would like to know if thats anywhere
near plausible.


Original Message:
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:18:15 +0000
From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Subject: V.

          NEHGS members will soon receive the third (Summer 2000)
          issue of New England Ancestors, which contains among other
          items the last of my five columns on British, European and
          American descendants of the Lygons of Madresfield,
          Worcestershire. That article covers the noted progeny of two
          Deighton sisters whose descendants are largely associated
          during the colonial period with Taunton, Mass., and of their
          cousin Mrs. Amy Wyllys Pynchon of Springfield, Mass.
          Noticeably absent from it is the most famous Pynchon of the
          modern period - the novelist Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (V),
          author of V. . . .

http://tinyurl.com/ehgqn

I'll repeat that for those of you who may be on drugs.

             . . . .novelist Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (V),
          author of V. . . .

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