V-2 - temporary interregnum

[kelber at mindspring.com]

We (well, I) allotted 3 weeks to this chapter.  We've got until Halloween Sunday to wade through it.  In the meantime, if anyone has any links to the articles Robin's mentioned, post them (please!).

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>Sent: Oct 21, 2010 8:02 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: V-2 - temporary interregnum
>
>Highya kids, this is Ralph Iceberg with the world's biggest  
>dealership, west of Balbec. Let's just take a taste of this fabulous  
>Yucatan Blue, scored for you by froggy little native boys in their  
>tight leather aprons by the sea, yes, crimson sometimes like fire . . .
>
>Right now, around 4:30 in the A.M, I'm getting ready to go to the IRS  
>facility on Butler to open incoming mail. The big dump of annual  
>returns centers on April 15 but there is also a "bubble" centered on  
>October 15, the end of the six-month extension. Yesterday was confused  
>enough and busy enough that I was unable time-wise to come up with a  
>real post, I'm not sure if today will be the same. At the rate we're  
>going, I'm sure I'll be back to my usual level of stagnant  
>unemployment allowing me time to further examine Mondaugen's Story.
>
>In fact, I received a number of articles from Dr. Krafft yesterday  
>that directly relate to the development of Chapter nine and I intend  
>to incorporate that material into our discussion of "V." "Fast  
>Learner: The Typescript of Pynchon’s V. at the Harry Ransom Center in  
>Austin" and "From the Ground Up: The Evolution of the South-West  
>Africa Chapter in Pynchon’s V.", both by Luc Herman and John M.  
>Krafft, demonstrate what I've long suspected --- that "Mondaugen's  
>Story" was both the last chapter to be written in "V." and is also the  
>most extensively revised chapter in "V." Furthermore, I also now have  
>the Adrian Wisnicki article "A Trove of New Works By Thomas Pynchon?  
>Bomarc News Service Rediscovered," a Very interesting article  
>concerning Pynchon's writing for Boeing from 1960 to 1962.
>
>So meanwhile, mingle, chips and dips, maybe have a "safety meeting" or  
>maybe oil yourself up for the Greco-Roman wrestling pit over in the  
>back 40. Our program ought to be resuming in a day or two.
>
>Anybody want a pony ride?
>