more prolegomena to V. : 1962 and more 1963

[Ian Livingston]

But if V. was published in '61...?

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:28 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> Laura
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> -----Original Message-----
>>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:
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>>         --March on Washington
>>         --MLKjr. I Have a Dream speech
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>>         --Assassination of America's Fisher-King, JFK, of course, in November
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>>         --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
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>>           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? ]
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>>      Tanganyika and Uganda become independent within the Commonwealth.
>>
>>      ['nother digression: Rolling Stones play first gig. Times they are a changing, of course]
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>>      Anti-Mosley- [the fascist]  crowd disrupts a right-wing Union Club public gathering.
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>>     Ranger 4 rocket crashes on the moon. JFK affirms that the US will land a man on the moon before the decade ends.
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>>     Cuban missile crisis, October.
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