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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