Masonic Insurance & Leaf Storm (G.G. Marquez)

[Mark Kohut]

Thanks Alice, your nails look lovely as always.

Leaf Storm. Another book I haven't read yet we know
TRP loves Marquez and musta read him in Spanish early.

more about Leaf Storm:  García Márquez introduces a dramatic scene to begin his 
narrative and then moves backward, rehashing the past that will lead up to the 
ultimate conclusion. It is discovered within the narrative that the center of 
all the conflict (the deceased) is a doctor who came to Macondo with a 
mysterious past and no clear name.

kinda echoes a novel we've been reading, yes?

Have the tenured scholars explored most of the Marquez connections within TRP? 
There's always more work to do, it seems....


----- Original Message ----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, February 20, 2011 10:46:27 AM
Subject: Masonic Insurance & Leaf Storm (G.G. Marquez)

The party goer list here reminds us of Fitzgerald's List making, the
Baedecker Flip & Flop sisters and the drunken wheel in the ditch crew
at Gatsby's parties, and the parody of Ben Franklin / Jay Gatz making
a how to succeed in life list, and Nick's obsession with keeping lists
and time schedules. Profane and Paola, Benny and Stencil, a insurance
executive and (the mutual insurance company was one of the fraternal
functions of Masonic membership and Ben Franklin, Mason,  was an early
proponent of Mutual Insurance).

The list also reminds us of Leaf Storm. GGM is famous for these absurd
little characters lists and I suspect Pynchon's list a weak rip-off of
GGM's manic and magical list making.

sent from my nail salon,

kisses and hugs,
Allie