Recognizing The Recognitions

[David Morris]

All these references leave me more than a bit overwhelmed. I can't
possibly use/follow for this read, and doubt anyone else just starting
could either. So we either flail about or be schooled.

On Tuesday, March 22, 2011, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
> Dude - incredibly good, granular background material. Nicely done!  We now all have a serious splash-down target zone...
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> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> and just in case you need more connective tissue linking WG and TRP, according to the WUSTL documentation, William Gaddis was the writer for a film produced by Hunter Low for the US Army in 1965, called "The Battle of St Vith." http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00420.html
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> The Battle of St Vith was the first engagement of the Battle of the fucking Bulge: http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/7-8/7-8_17.htm
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> also: "the chaplains out in the Bulge are manly, haggard, hard drinkers"  (Gravity's Rainbow p135)
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> and of course because of the miracle of the internet, you can watch the movie here:
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> Part I: BATTLE OF ST. VITH - PART I <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tdy_O81rLw>
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> Part II: BATTLE OF ST. VITH - PART II <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JozuB1NFtg>
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>  <http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00420.html>
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> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> o-oh and I forgot the Finding-Aid for the William Gaddis Papers at Washington University, St Louis: http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00049.html
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> I just found this gem, which is all kinds of On-Topic for the Pynchon-l:
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> From Donadio, Candida to Gaddis, William , 1963: March 05  sent from NYC; concerns tarot card reading
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> (Steven Moore is editing a collection of WG's correspondence to be published by the Dalkey Archive).
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> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
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> There's not much reason to spend time googling Gaddis' references: the collaborative annotations at williamgaddis.org have that well in hand, though of course always open to suggestions & improvements.
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> the annotations site also has the ne plus ultra of Gaddis experts, Steven Moore, contributing regularly (also to the Gaddis List), and his fantastic book William Gaddis (1989) is available online and for free as some kind of remarkable public benefit:  <http://www.williamgaddis.org/mooregaddisbk/index.shtml>--
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