Pynchon reference

[Mark Kohut]

Bekah,

Great find!....I've gotta add, as is known and was learned during her controversy over some supposedly 'borrowed' work, she has researchers--a team of, sometimes---who gather whatever under her guidance. Then she writes.

Just a hunch that it was a younger person than she is who knew where to look. (lotsa 'Humanities' majors get these jobs, of course..English, History of course, etc.)



----- Original Message ----
From: Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 5:36:09 PM
Subject: Pynchon reference

I'm currently reading "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin.    Imagine my surprise when,  on page 103,  discussing Lincoln's melancholic personality,  I happen upon a quote by OBA.

" ' Melancholy,' writes the modern novelist Thomas Pynchon, 'is a far richer and more complex ailment than simple depression.  Therei s a generaous amplitude of possibility, chances for productive behavior, even what may be identified as a sense of humor.' "

Source: (pg  776)
" 'Melancholy ... a sense of humor':  Thomas Pynchon, introduction  to 'The Teachings of Don B.: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Bartholme,'  ed. Kim Kerzinger (New York: Turtle Bay Books, Random House, (1992), p. xviii. "

I guess Goodwin knows where to look?  - heh

Bekah