Pynchon is a realist after all

[Monte Davis]

This “getting close to reality”… is it a trend? Should we worry? 

 

From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Mark Kohut
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 11:00 AM
To: pynchon -l
Subject: Re: Pynchon is a realist after all

 

>From a blogger named Lennox who has read the ebook edition of Gravity's Rainbow very recently (obviously): 

 

"One thing I do want to note is how close to reality Pynchon gets – during my time reading Gravity’s Rainbow I went on a day-trip to the National Science Museum in London and there was an exhibit about the V-2 rocket and its production in Peenemünde and the Mittelwerk, with photographs showing places mentioned in the novel. This helped give the book an extra dimension."

 

From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2012 7:16 PM
Subject: Pynchon is a realist after all

 

"He was a sewer-rat. His friends would lower him, with a metal-detector, into the main sewer beneath the hotels of Miami

Beach. There, he would prospect for jewelry flushed, accidently, down the toilets.

   'It is not, I can assure you, sir,'he said, 'an unrewardiung occupation.' "

                                                  Notebooks of Bruce Chatwin, 1980's

 

 

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