Pynchon reference

[Bekah]

Great point.   It's a darned good book, though.

Bekah


On Feb 14, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> 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
>
>
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