Misc. A little P; a little C. McCarthy and a link????

[Mark Kohut]

Pynchon won the Wm Faulkner First Novel award for V. in 1961.
In 1965 Cormac won for The Orchard Keeper.

Two Nobel shortlisters (so far) honored early. 

On the John Laroquette Show in the 90s, he brought Pynchon into a storyline
or two, although no one but they know how much "involvement" there was. 

One storyline involved the title of Pynchon's next novel called Pandemonium
of the Sun on the show....I took that seriously then, Rich R., I believe it was,  set me straight and I have learned since that that phrase appears in McCarthy's Blood Meridian from 1985........

One might guess they 'kept up' with each others work, at least?! 

The Trystero, 1966 creation, is, at least, a group of deadly dressed-in-black horseback riders in one historical allusion. I cannot remember for sure, but I think at another, the Tristero is three men-in-black.........


I KNOW that by Against the Day, there are three deadly black-dressed men on horseback galloping thru some scenes from the past................

In "Outer Dark", McCarthy's 1968 novel, there is a murderous triune in black and on horseback who roam the landscape and kill. When we first learn of them, we read of them, just part of one description, as if coming alive from a "proletarian mural" ...............

Any influencing goin' on,---it would look to be McCarthy adding flesh to p's dark threesome--- or did they BOTH get such a concept from that Eliot footnote---or mythology or life?