Possible (unusual) Pynchon reference?

[Joe Allonby]

I would expect to hear that on this show
http://onlyagame.wbur.org/about

especially when Charlie Pierce is pontificating.


On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 3/9/2012 9:19 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>> 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....
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>> 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"................
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>> 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........
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>> 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
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>> have time to check.....
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>> If anyone heard this or wants to pursue.............confirming or
>> disconfirming would be interesting?
>>
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> Could it be an allusion to both gentlemen's relative "reclusiveness?"
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> Keeping out of the limelight, being homebodies, marrying sensible women, not
> dating glamorous film stars (as one famed qb competitor does).
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> Manning's indicated disappearance from NY is a little Pynchonesque, isn't
> it?  (thinking back)
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> Hopefully the the Redskins he'll be next sighted in D.C., not the sunbelt.
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