Article on Pynchon from 1978 by Robert Goolrick

[Otto]

Indeed it is and of course I wanted to get the answer to that riddle
and got this:

4. There’s a few jokes in one of my favourite books, Gravity’s
Rainbow, which I get but have never seen cracked in print. One is a
riddle put at a fictional convention on brain function: “What did the
cockney exclaim to the cowboy from San Antonio?” Steven Weisenburger,
in his exhaustive and fabulous line by line analysis, “A Gravity’s
Rainbow Companion” muffs it with a long etymological analysis of the
word cockney, and a reference to an anal-erotic incident earlier in
the book to guess that the answer is “I’ll be your rose from San
Antone.”

What? It’s a *brain function convention*, remember?

The answer, obviously, is “Cor, Tex…”

Maybe you need to have spent time in England to get it…
http://blog.brian-fitzgerald.net/?cat=21

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Otto

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-- Johann Nestroy

2009/6/16 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
> http://americanfiction.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/robert-goolrick-pieces-of-pynchon/
>
> nice gift on this Bloomsday
>