Possible (unusual) Pynchon reference?

[Mark Kohut]

much more likely hearing/reading, yes...........................
 
 
 

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From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
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Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: Possible (unusual) Pynchon reference?

On 3/9/2012 9:19 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> I am belated on this because I have had a busy week, all good.
> But a sports-minded writer-friend of mine called me on Tuesday,
> I believe it was, to ask me the meaning of what he thought he heard
> on the sports show Mike&  Mike....
>
> They were talking about the Peyton Manning situation, with him
> appearing in NY, then disappearing, perhaps talking to other teams,
> with whereabouts often unknown, with still no final word from his owners,e tc. etc. and my friend said
> that Mike Greenberg said, "it is all very Pynchonian"................
>
> I told him that IF he heard right i imagine the guy was referring to
> slothrop---or the fact of so many characters popping up, then going
> away, then popping back within major fictions........
>
> I cannot find this on the Mike&  Mike website when I put in Pynchon.
> "Did I mean "puncheon?".....M&  M are YouTubed all over but I don't
> have time to check.....
>
> If anyone heard this or wants to pursue.............confirming or
> disconfirming would be interesting?
>


Could it be an allusion to both gentlemen's relative "reclusiveness?"

Keeping out of the limelight, being homebodies, marrying sensible women, 
not dating glamorous film stars (as one famed qb competitor does).

Manning's indicated disappearance from NY is a little Pynchonesque, 
isn't it?  (thinking back)

Hopefully the the Redskins he'll be next sighted in D.C., not the sunbelt.

P