1945, boy in rocket

[Paul Mackin]

On 8/24/2011 11:39 AM, rich wrote:
> or it could've been just Gilligan
>
> 8) X Marks the Spot - In a test of a deadly new missile, called
> "Operation Powder Keg," the Air Force chooses an "uninhabited island"
> which just happens to be Gilligan's Island.  When the rocket lands and
> does not explode, Gilligan is chosen to crawl inside to defuse it,
> because he is the only one that can fit inside!
>
> aired, January, 1965

When Pynchon saw this episode (and he must have) he proly read into it 
some kind of mythic marriage of man and machine.

That Pynchon.

P
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de>  wrote:
>> To the one who asked: No, I wasn't joking. And yes, I did answer Laura
>> Kelber's request offlist.
>> Well, actually I rarely joke when it comes to facts. And since I remembered
>> the title of of my
>> old mail correctly and also cited it correctly, the list's archives -
>> despite all their inherent vice -
>> spat it out immediately. But hey, I have time like sand on the strand, and
>> here's an article from
>> wikipedia:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Sieber
>>
>> The more I think about it, the more I think that Pynchon knew about this
>> from his Boeing sources
>> and did not really invent the boy in the rocket.
>>
>>>
>>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0210&msg=71548&keywords=fly%20me%20to%20the%20moon%20rainbow%20files
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>>>
>>> Have not the time today to go into further research, put perhaps my
>>> original mail from 2002 (yes, it's time that's flying ...) with its
>>> reference to Stanford will help. Guess you can also find the article in
>>> the "Spiegel"'s digital archive and perhaps there's by now either a
>>> translation of the book mentioned or a similar text in English. While
>>> we're at it: The mail's "outtakes" are of course "excerpts".
>>>
>>>
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