Fwd: BtZ42 Scene 15, pp 122 Miller edition

[Mark Kohut]

Anyone, anyone---Ish? , our resident "The Secret Integration" aficionado
and another general Pynchon expert--on why P
used him again?




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From: Eileen Pierce <eileenpierce333 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: BtZ42 Scene 15, pp 122 Miller edition
To: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
Cc: Eileen Pierce <eileenpierce333 at gmail.com>


Thank you for pointing this out.  I was not aware of this connection to his
earlier work.  Enjoy the day.  e

> On Jul 4, 2016, at 5:51 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As Fowler reminds and which I would never have remembered but for just
rereading SLOW LEARNER, King Yrjo---'a pretender but the true king, for a
very doubtful branch of the family usurped the throne in 1878 during the
intrigues over Bessarabia"--appears as an item of local color in the story
'The Secret Integration"; there he was said to have traded a bucket of
jewels for some Mingeborough property, kept three or perhaps four wives,
and been attended by a seven-foot cavlary officer.


Eileen Pierce
608-512-6451
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