Interlocking "Imaginary Corporations"

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Mon May 4 09:08:47 CDT 2009


On May 4, 2009, at 4:17 AM, Henry Musikar wrote:

> http://chickasawpicklesmell.blogspot.com/2009/05/imaginary-corporations-by-adam.html

	 . . . But all this is just a detour from the true origin of Yoyodyne:
	 Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, V., and Vineland in
	which it is a thinly-veiled version of the real-world Rocketdyne
	Corporation, a company formed in the wake of WWII to reverse-
	engineer Nazi rocket technology, specifically the V-2 rocket,
	whose parabolic path would give Gravity's Rainbow its title and
	primary theme . . .

Here's a link to a book on Rocketdyne:

http://tinyurl.com/cyecy7



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