Reed's Mumbo Jumbo and Pynchon

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Just Zeitgeist synchronicity.   Just? as in merely?   What was in the wind
is probably more important than sources, no?
And more so, as Pynchon explains in that SL Introduction, once he begins to
gain confidence and stop all the fancy dancing kid stuff and get out On the
Road, a Wandering Scholar. BTW, F S Fitzgerald quit school and did a stint
in the army too.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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