ATDTDA (17): Roy Mickey (480.10)

[Tim Strzechowski]

According to the Pynchon Wiki:

Roy Mickie

??? In context, Tace's brother's name.
Thesis: Roy (Disney) Mick(ey Mouse) -- the brother/creation of Walt Disney. In fact Mickey was the creation of Ub Iwerks (how Pynchonesque a name is that!) but is often thought to be Walt's "baby," financed by Roy. So, reading back into the context: the illegitimate issue of an incestuous liaison.

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_460-488#Page_480


Interestingly, Eric Larson tells us in _The Devil in the White City_ that as the construction progressed in Jackson Park of what would eventually become the White City, 

"the workforce in the park numbered four thousand.  The ranks included a carpenter and furniture-maker named Elias Disney, who in coming years would tell many stories about the construction of this magical realm beside the lake.  His son Walt would take note" (153).


Yes, everything connects ...


cf. Larson, Eric.  _The Devil in the White City_. Vintage: New York, 2003.