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

[Michael Bailey]

nice linkage, and why not?  no obstructions to thinking that - in
fact, thank you for another detail placing this in its time, something
I've been trying to do (with my fragmentary memories of those Bermuda
shorts years, after all I was just a little kid then)

I remember sneaking in (on foot) to a drive-in theater with some
friends to see Goodbye Columbus and Rosemary's Baby, not quite sure
how we did that?? pretty sure we got kicked out before the end - but
the movie didn't come out till years later of course



 Mark Kohut wrote:
> 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.....
>
>
>
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