M&D Deep Duck 4-6: Equator

[Mark Kohut]

Have we, has anyone--cause we probably know almost nothing---talked
about how P might have
written his books beyond the above, the graph paper story of GR, etc.

By that I mean, the biggest ones (after V.)  are organized mostly as
scenes, events, tableaus, set pieces, etc.
and he perfects them with all the meanings he wants, makes them cohere
and tries to make the whole cohere.

But, he probably, as did Joyce, build them (the novels)
cumulatively....creating, filling in scenes as time moved on,
moving, rewriting, changing scenes....so, very hard to know---who's
asking, bud?--say in this Read of M & D what parts
might have been written when. But perhaps very wrong-headed to think
the end scenes came near the end of the writing,
what think ye?

For example, that Clintonesque joke about "not inhaling the hemp"
comes quite early in M & D but much later in all the
time he was supposedly writing it.

So, take these banalities further, folks....


On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 26, 2015, at 12:36 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
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>> Nice find. Could Pynchon have come across this quote while doing background research on Quakers?
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> Mason & Dixon was published in 1997 - but TRP had worked on it since 1975.   By 1996 the internet was pretty well abloom with browsers and search engines,  although not Google.  TRP was/is not a Luddite about this anyway  - his article "Is It Okay to Be a Luddite?"  was in 1984!   I wonder if access to the internet could have prolonged the writing/editing process,  an additional resource for quotes and Quaker history and so on -   lol -
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> We've got it so easy.
> http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html
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> Bek
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>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
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>>>
>>> The Friend - Volume 54 - Page 257 - Google Books Result
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>>> https://books.google.com/books?id=10crAAAAYAAJ
>>> 1881 - Society of Friends
>>> ... voyage by a French privateer, but was soon released by the
>>> commander of the latter, who honorably remarked, 'France is not at war
>>> with the sciences.' " Soon ...
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