V--2nd, Chapter 16, p 462 hc, Brenda Wigglesworth

[Mark Kohut]

OK, foax, one of those speculative, associative rides some love
to laugh at me over.....

Unproveable, of course, unless and until TRP tells us in some way. If ever.

Lotsa stuff on the Puritan Wigglesworth surely worked into V. here, we've 
explored but
on Brenda, as name---not so much.

In 1959, P. Roth, published a prize-winning first book that we can think TRP 
mighta hoped he
could match---V. actually o'ertopped it when published---- Goodbye, Columbus.

With one of the more famous Brendas in literature. Brenda Patimkin....
(OK TRP's Brenda is an American WASP---who attended Beaver College--
real, of course, with a real big search engine problem in the internet years as
you can figure out, leading them to talk about changing their name, if I 
remember)

BUT there are all those Bermuda Shorts of TRPs Brenda,--like Roth's summer 
romance Brenda-- who
had a summer affair with a guy from the "academic flatlands of Jersey", on a 
Grand Tour (little sleep-around joke?)----Roth's hero
is from Newark, of course, going to college, w key scenes at the Newark Library 
but TRP's Brenda

had "a pregnancy scare (hers only)", which pregnancy possibility wout a 
diaphragm is key to the 
denoument in Goodbye, Columbus, of course......TRP's Brenda:  "her inside too 
was her outside"....??!!


As Shakespeare does it w bits and pieces like a bird making a nest and 
change-ups and indirection, so does TRP
(which applies of course, even if I'm wrong here out of TOO-TOO Much of a 
Kuteness.....