Thomas Pynchon's old friend Jules Siegel interviewed - "Journey Into the Mind of P"

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Pynchon of course knew about MK Ultra (plus its Hippie offspring); the 
"confession" Jules Siegel detects in "Gravity's Rainbow" is, however, 
all about Pynchon's involvement with Boeing and the 'Bomarc' project. 
Actually he was writing for "Bomarc Service News".

"Pynchon wrote most extensively on the 'Bomarc' winged surface-to-air 
missile, eerily similar to the A-9 that Nazi engineers built to bomb New 
York." (Steven Weisenburger, Cambridge Companion 2012, p. 45).

Since the assumed 'missile gap' turned out to be a myth, and since 
things happening in Vietnam started  looking from month to month more 
and more like a genocide, our author had to do some "karmic adjustment", 
as the term from "Vineland" goes.

And /that's/ the "confession" you can find in "Gravity's Rainbow"!


On 03.03.2012 08:13, Dave Monroe wrote:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ1eu9MX95A
>
> "very interesting video, according to Jules Siegel, Thomas Pynchon was
> in on the CIA-sponsored plan to dope up the boomer generation with LSD
> and the novel Gravity's Rainbow would amount to a sort of
> confession..."
>
> http://vigilantcitizen.com/vcboards/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11097&view=next&sid=38deabc4ba4e60263a8a9553fcc07ae5
>
>

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