more prolegomena to V. : 1962 and more 1963

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Clockwork Orange (the novel) was published in 1962.  Not necessarily any thematic connection, but the phrase may have got Pynchon's wheels turning.  Lots of clockwork imagery in V.

Laura

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>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Jun 9, 2010 7:14 PM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: more prolegomena to V. : 1962 and more 1963
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>Continuing the post on 1963 first, here is some more from that year:
> 
>         --March on Washington
>         --MLKjr. I Have a Dream speech
>        
>         --Assassination of America's Fisher-King, JFK, of course, in November
>  
>         --for the first time, freshman females in the US answer a longstanding goals poll by not putting
>marriage w white picket fence house and kids first. (still want that, but adventure, travel, chance
>to be single awhile comes first)
>
>1962
> 
>           Rwanda and Burundi gain independence. 
>    * Supporters of Algerian independence win 99% majority in a referendum. De Gaulle grants independence to Algeria.
>    * A heavy smog develops over London. [Digression but it is easy enough to see this, sea-changed by a genius, as the giant adenoid in GR, yes? ]
>           
>      Tanganyika and Uganda become independent within the Commonwealth.
> 
>      ['nother digression: Rolling Stones play first gig. Times they are a changing, of course]
> 
>      Anti-Mosley- [the fascist]  crowd disrupts a right-wing Union Club public gathering.
> 
>     Ranger 4 rocket crashes on the moon. JFK affirms that the US will land a man on the moon before the decade ends. 
> 
>     Cuban missile crisis, October.
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