Luck with Rainbows!

[Natália Maranca]

Henry, do you think the "rainbow" there has the same meaning as it does in
GR? Still it is perfectly possible he got his inspiration from TV for the
title. Pynchon doesn't despise pop culture, quite the contrary...

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Pynchon might easily have seen it....he was 28....V. is done.....he is
> reading, listening, writing, watching TV........surely GR is being thought
> of, at least................probably being researched and
> written?........................................
>
>
>
> Cof L 49 comes next 66, 67......for Esquire.............he needs the money
> (in order to keep
>
> writing GR...)
>
> --- On *Sat, 6/28/08, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> From: Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Luck with Rainbows!
> To: "'Pynchon Liste'" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008, 4:04 PM
>
>
> Shout out (LOL) to one P-Lister who let me know that my original message on
> this subject DID go through.
>
> Um, lemee try this again:
> A '65 TV show with "Rainbow" in the episode title; WWII GI's
> helping an
> English Colonel to find and destroy a V-2 launch site.  That's 1965, i.e.
> BGR!
>
> I am rocket-blasted by the silence on this!  Does it need to appear in an
> academic journal before we can consider OBA's TV-watching (as opposed to
> toilet) habits; is it just too TV pop-cult for y'all?
>
> HENRY MUSIK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry
> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 3:02 PM
>
> Test, test...
>
> I'm just so excited at my good fortune at finding this Combat! episode that
> I'm stunned by their being no response, and so I'm wondering: did my
> message
> get through?  If not, I'll resend it, because I believe that the
> Rainbow/V-2
> connection (never mind the "Luck") before the publication of GR is
> significant, particularly in an episode of a WWII TV series that featured
> directors as influential as Robert Altman (who did not direct this episode)!
>
> Reply to me, please, and not to the list.
>
>
> HENRY MU
> Information, Media, and Technology Consultant
> http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/4gddt
>
>
>
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