V-2 -Chapter 9 - prolegomenon & apologia

[kelber at mindspring.com]

It seems as if Pynchon uses this book as source material for both GR and ATD.  Regardless of the book's flaws, there's more to build on than to reject.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>
>In spite of all my previous catcalls 'n' jeers there is something  
>about this chapter -- it is as if the author flipped a switch and  
>suddenly we are in the center of Gravity's Rainbow or Against the Day.  
>Or perhaps one of TRP's Boeing/CIA connections gave young Thomas a  
>time machine of his very own and the author of this chapter is a  
>trespasser from the Channel View development.