BEER Group Read. What's in a Name?

[John Bailey]

Damn, nice connection.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Jack Waters <jack.j.waters at gmail.com> wrote:
> Loeffler is also the name of a German composer, Charles Martin Loeffler.
> Very interesting to note that the composer's father wrote journalism under
> the name 'Tornov' or 'Tornow' while the son sometimes used it as a middle
> name. Seems too close to be a coincidence. Loeffler was also friends with
> French composer Gabriel Fauré, and Fauré anglicized looks an awful lot like
> fire.
>
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> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> More naming.
>> Loeffler.....German for spoonbill, can't see any relevance but we learn
>> this marriage was Jew
>> with German......more 'end of history' motif?......
>>
>> And might as well get Gabriel Ice down.......Ice...the coldness as bad
>> shit from before
>> Shakespeare....and one of P's constants, shorthand signatures as tropes
>> go......
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
>> To: Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com>
>> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 7:21 AM
>> Subject: Re: BEER Group Read. What's in a Name?
>>
>> 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.
>>
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>>
>> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Fiona Shnapple
>> <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Muchamore's Henderson's Boys Maxine.
>> >
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson's_Boys
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sunday, October 13, 2013, wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Max I-net Ar Now
>> >> Mac Seen
>> >> Philip Marlowe
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
>> >>
>> >> -----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?
>> >>
>> >> 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,
>> >> hav=
>> >> ing survived that history.
>> >> =0A=A0=0Ahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarn=F3w
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