Fwd: NP really, but maybe. But if I am right

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From: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
To: macissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
Sent: Thu, May 9, 2013 9:20 am
Subject: Re: NP really, but maybe. But if I am right


In my screenplay, he and Farina definitely share a lover. The story's told through her eyes, natch.



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From: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>; pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, May 9, 2013 8:53 am
Subject: Re: NP really, but maybe. But if I am right


We often admire our friends. Of course Fariña was good looking and ready to eat 
he world (check out those videos of he and Mimi on the Pete Seeger show) so 
aybe young TP envied his friend in that sense, but to extend that to say that 
e robbed Fariña... Nah, da'don fly.
lice is right that RF simply didn't get the chance.
erhaps it would be better to say that they sipped from the same cup, but Fariña 
as only able to dip his beak & TP jumped in like a fly for a swim.
lus, check out what Cowart says about TP's test scores for the Navy (he out 
erformed a Princeton PHD in reading and math), they kid was very good material. 
P didn't need to rob his friend; I suspect he would take exception to that 
dea.
mc

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rom: "bandwraith at aol.com" <bandwraith at aol.com>
o: pynchon-l at waste.org 
ent: Thursday, May 9, 2013 12:09 PM
ubject: Re: NP really, but maybe. But if I am right

Oh come on. Pynchon looked up to Farina, not just in a literary sense. I think 
e envied him a bit, sexually.

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rom: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
o: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
ent: Thu, May 9, 2013 5:58 am
ubject: Re: NP really, but maybe. But if I am right

t's not possible to believe that P robbed Farina of style. Farina never had the 
hance to develop, let alone develop a style. That P and F worked on and with a 
ot of the same material, as countless others who were scribbling campus novels 
nd trying to find a new beat voice even as they tied in the tendrils of 
radition they hardly new or understood, even as they yearned to get out as 
ondering scholars, out on the road, west young man, to the sea, where the might 
isten to what Whitman sang about, where, like Oedipa, the might see America, 
he one that ee Cummings wrote about, the one that  WAC Williams, in Paterson, 
he one that Howl describes. Farina did not live long enough to have a style. 
ad, but true. 


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