Portrait of the Artist as an Old Boat

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Reading /Bleeding Edge/ for the third time - now in the translation of 
Dirk van Gunsteren, who, like in his translation of /Vineland/, really 
manages to give Pynchon's voice a German tongue - , I came across 
something which escaped my attention during the former reads.

"Sid introduces them. 'It's a 1937 Gar Wood, 200 horses, shakedown 
cruises on Lake George, honorable history of outrunning pursuit at every 
level ...'" (p. 165)

Pynchon was born in 1937, and while I'm still meditating upon what 
"shakedown cruises on Lake George" may stand for, the "honorable history 
of outrunning pursuit at every level" is perfectly clear to me. By 
avoiding the public Pynchon shook off fanboys & fangirls, journalists & 
scholars, beggars & kings.

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2013/06/06/Marine-Marketwatch

I love /Bleeding Edge/ for its sense of NOW.

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