COL49 - Chap 5: Hard Rain?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jun 16, 2009, at 2:22 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> TRP was certainly familiar with the song.  Is Oedipa the blue-eyed  
> son? More of a fit than Mr. Jones in Ballad of a Thin Man.

I do suspect there's a fair portion of autobiography transferred over  
to Oedipa. And I'm sure TRP read all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.  
He's very well read, it's well known.