IVIV (0) This Lively Yarn

[Mark Kohut]

Kudos both.

Trivial semi-connection I happen to remember that does not seem to relate as the birthday fact does in IV. (One must have mental discipline with the actual connections!)

The Watts riot, mentioned in Chap 1 of IV and, of course, the subject of one of TRP's few but famous non-fiction pieces, started on the eve of his birthday in 1966.  



--- On Fri, 8/21/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (0) This Lively Yarn
> To: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, August 21, 2009, 11:30 AM
> On 8/21/09, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 1) The novel ends on Pynchon's 33rd birthday - a nice
> way of underscoring
> > the semi-autobiographical nature of IV.
> ___________
> not bad for our Christ figure, eh? the savior of Coy and
> Hope but the
> man knows things are heading to shit..what cavalry awaits
> this latter
> day saint
> 
> Rich
>