IVIV: Howard Hughes & Summa Corp.

[kelber at mindspring.com]

My expectations were low, but I was still disappointed with The Prisoner remake.  Heavy-handed, and going for a quasi-sci-fi/spiritual explanation at the end, rather than the po-mo, Kafkaesque ending of the original.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>Sent: Nov 19, 2009 10:16 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: IVIV: Howard Hughes & Summa Corp.
>
>Odd, perhaps irrelevant observation.
>
>The name of Howard Hughes' corporation was Summa Corp.
>
>The name of the corporation in the remake of "The Prisoner" is  
>"Summakor."
>
>http://www.summakor.com/about.html