V-2nd - Chapter 10: Partridge in a Pear tree

[Robin Landseadel]

Strictly speaking, Pynchon is a rocket scientist. Anyway, that's the  
reason Boeing hired him, he could suss out the nomenclature and  
explain the interaction of the various gizmos to the plutes carrying  
and caring for all those nuclear tipped Bomarcs.

As for Pynchon's broken estate, all hippies are romantics at heart.

On Nov 2, 2010, at 4:43 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> And, we don't need to be rocket scientists, in fact Pynchon is no
> rocket scientist and, althoguh people like Hale (great critic of
> Pynchon and other texts), reading his texts as science books is more
> often a distraction. ANd, though he tells readers that he is a student
> of Bartleby and Byron and Blake and Emerosn and Whitman .....they
> simply refuse to take him at his word. anyways....