Pynchon Character Names

[Campbel Morgan]

It's available at the library, as is Inherent Vice (cool cover art).
As are a pile of books, artciles, journals, documents, etc., seems the
Pynchon industry has not been hurt by the recession. I'd love to read
something on Pynchon and photography/electricity. I am reminded now,
as I re-read AGTD and after a quick search of "Pynchon" in the
electronic stacks of NYPL, of Pynchon's near obsession with his
ancestors, those William Pynchon writings on Religion, those TRP books
on Chemistry ...much as Hawthorne was obsessed with his, and how the
two authors are entwined, and how much Pynchon "follows" Hawthorne's
advice on writing Romance (see the Preface to Hawthorne's) and, while
this is obvious enough I suppose, Pynchon writes Romance/Satire of the
type Hawthorne/Melville wrote during the so called "American
Renaissance," and how Holgrave and his narrative, and photography in
HSG, is recycled in AGTD, with a Jamesian twist or two.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:29 AM, John Bailey<sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone heard of this? Or own it?
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Pynchon-Character-Names-Patrick-Hurley/dp/0786434589
>
> I can't think of another author with a comparably odd book devoted to them.
>