M&D - I Hear Voices

[jochen stremmel]

apropos P in England, I just found this snippet at pynchon.pomona.edu:

London-based publisher of *V.* Tom Maschler reports, "[Pynchon]'s
fantastically aware of everything around him. He has an incredible facility
for picking up what's going on, in the papers, on the radio, everything.
He'd been in London for three days and he seemed to know more about the
city than I did."

2015-03-24 20:06 GMT+01:00 Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com>:

> Vic & Bob - I can't aleays explain why they make me laugh, but when
> they're funny they're uproarious
>
> On Tuesday, March 24, 2015, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Really? wow, thank you for the info. He must’ve travelled North as well:)
>> In a flannel shirt? lol
>>
>> > 24. mar. 2015 kl. 13.26 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > yes, word is he did live in England for awhile. Made some face-to-face
>> > friends, including, Ian McEwan reportedly.  Supposedly researched at
>> > the British Museum.
>> > was at at least one dinner party in a flannel shirt. Called
>> > Christopher Hitchens up once.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Great post.
>> >> It's hilarious innit. Me too have wondered, he must have lived in
>> England
>> >> for a bit, surely, how is it possible otherwise? How can one just
>> research
>> >> such a thing?
>> >> Gazza mate, hahah. I'm adding a clip of Bob Mortimer as well just for
>> the
>> >> record and a bit more <<speak>>.
>> >>
>> >> Bob Mortimer's Uniquely High Arse
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh-bAW3IwhI>
>> >>
>> >> 24. mar. 2015 kl. 03.05 skrev Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >> As an Englishman I'm impressed by how well TRP captures the distinctive
>> >> regional accents of both Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon - if he
>> didn't
>> >> live in Britain for a while then he certainly intensively researched
>> >> speaking patterns. I'd like to provide a couple of examples of those
>> accents
>> >> for non-British readers, so they can gain a sense of how the characters
>> >> sound when they speak.
>> >>
>> >> Mason is from Stroud, in the rural South West of England. The most
>> famous
>> >> resident of Stroud I can think of is Jack Russell, an English
>> cricketer and
>> >> a man of myriad eccentricities (no wonder TRP was drawn to the game in
>> ATD).
>> >> Don't try to keep up with the sporting jargon, but Russell's gentle
>> burr is
>> >> typical of Mason's Gloucestershire accent:
>> >>
>> >> Jack Russell WicketKeeping Masterclass Part 1
>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_6XI0r3-EQ>
>> >>
>> >> Jeremiah Dixon is from the diametric opposite corner of England,
>> Durham.
>> >> Apologies for another sporting clip, especially as I sent this one out
>> >> before (at the start of the group read) but if you want to familiarise
>> >> yourself with Dixon's Geordie accent, look no further than Gazza
>> >>
>> >> Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwNAZFHHirg>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
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