ATD...had forgotten...narrator on the Chums later ...getting free.

[Mark Kohut]

Worry about that but "shortly" seems pretty flexible for the Chums.............this read I felt
Pynchon ended with that as a way of linking the indie move since his transitions are so....

uh, um, ragged?  Or just not good, that is bad???

Dunno, of course. 



----- Original Message ----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, April 28, 2010 2:56:42 PM
Subject: Re: ATD...had forgotten...narrator on the Chums later ...getting free.

Mark Kohut wrote:
> it refers to when they became independent much further along in the book

Doesn't fit easily with:

> "as it did shortly"

a phrase which asks the reader to pay attention to a short time period
following the immediate