Article on Pynchon from 1978 by Robert Goolrick

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Otto quoted:
 
> 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 [...].
> 
> The answer, obviously, is “Cor, Tex…”

In his second edition of the Companion (from November 2006, and thus
before the quoted blog-post from January 2007) Weisenburger gets it right.
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