Pynchon Character Names

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Paul Di Filippo <pgdf at cox.net> wrote:

> Foax--I confess to not always having time to keep up with every post.  So if
> the item below has already been mentioned on-list, please forgive the wasted
> bandwidth.  But I could not chance that it had gone unreported.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Pynchon-Character-Names-Patrick-Hurley/dp/0786434589/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206986188&sr=8-1

Okay, thanks to a kindly offlister, and after no small deliberation on
my part (gift certificates hold a certain ethical imperative for me),
I FINALLY (though I think a recent reminder here didn't hurt, either)
took delivery of ...

http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3458-9

... today, and, having already started in on it, on the one hand, it's
no doubt an excellent resource (though maybe there's something I
missed in the intro somehow justifying the lack of page numbers for
many entries), on the other, it reaffirms nonetheless the Very Good
Work I believe we do here (and which Hurley may or may not have
availed himself of), e.g., ...

On "Suckling, Darby (ATD)", "there may be an allusion to Sir John
Suckling ...."  Vs. the archives ....

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114270

... and then there's Gouverneur "Roony" Winsome, but ...

Though I DO wish I'd've namedropped Darby O'Gill and the Little
People, as Hurley indeed does ...

And I do have to ask, how does one NOT recognize the gag in "Amand Allegre"?

But to answer, however, one perhaps burning question, no, despite the
many other actual historical character entries here, and despite Chas.
Hollander being both cited an bibliographized, there's no entry for
Remedios Varo (?!).  Meanwhile, the entry for McClintic Sphere is
underwhelming, to say the least, given what could be, and has been,
said on the subject.

Nonetheless, I've no doubt I'll be hurl(ey)ing entries from at y'all
in the days and weeks and months and years to come, so ...