BEER Group Read. What's in a Name?

[John Bailey]

Maxine's a pretty close anagram of Examine (or examiner, if you want
to include the Tarnow).

But I like to think Pynchon doesn't use anagrams to name his
characters these days (whoever cracked "Entropy Sloth" is a genius but
BE isn't Gravity's Rainbow and everything he's written since that book
has been deliberately less Coded, I think).

Mark's link to the wiki entry on Polish town Tarnow is worth looking
at. That's some terrible history.



On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Fiona Shnapple
<fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
> Muchamore's Henderson's Boys Maxine.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson's_Boys
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> On Sunday, October 13, 2013, wrote:
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>> Philip Marlowe
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>> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> Sender: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 03:51:50
>> To: pynchon -l<pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Reply-To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: BEER Group Read. What's in a Name?
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>> Maxine Tarnow. Maximum Tarnow? Tarnished now, so she is now
>> tar?=0A=A0=0APo=
>> lish=A0city with a lot of 'history', esp for Jews. =0AMaxine is in NYC,
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>> ing survived that history. =0A=A0=0Ahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarn=F3w
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