Reed's Mumbo Jumbo and Pynchon

[Perry Noid]

Oh wow. I never bothered to compare the publishing dates. Something must
have been in the air I suppose.

On Tuesday, January 19, 2016, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mumbo Jumbo was published in 1972. I cannot easily find out what month.
>
> Gravity's Rainbow was published early in 1973.
> Which means the GR manuscript was turned over to Viking by summer
> 1972.
>
> Which makes the mention late in GR a shout-out to a book he likes a lot.
> An incorporated blurb as it were providing a cool aside about a new
> writer.
>
> There is evidence---Catch -22 probably---that even then Pynchon was able
> to read
> some new novels in manuscript or galley form. But if he couldn't read
> Mumbo-Jumbo
> this way, then he must have read it as he was finishing up and or proofing
> GR
> himself.
>
> If he could have read it earlier than 1972, most of GR was finished anyway
> so
> no major influence. Just Zeitgeist synchronicity.
>
> which leads to the next post.
>
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