BtZ42. One of the enigmas of GR.

[Mark Kohut]

yeah, a more recent scholarly find than earlier entrees suggest. The KK
comic is evidently a kind of morality tale, clear good--bad characters
wherein the Kid, however, is a Robin Hood figure, redistributing.

Given P's way of sometimes overloading his symbology, his layers of
resonance and willed ambiguity, the earlier belief that The Kenosha Kid
might also have been a reference to Orson Welles, a nickname for him, whose
most famous film CITIZEN KANE, ends with a
childhood memory meant to explain so much---a surfaced memory that has to
remind us, doesn't it?, of all these memories
surfacing involuntarily in Slothrop?  (Genuine question since i've often
thought Kute Konnection but...from his nickname alone...why not a coded
ROSEBUD somehow?)

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> For those who don't already know it, the _locus classicus_ for the Kenosha
> Kid -- especially in this proximity to the Westwardman -- is the 1931
> Western pulp story brought to our notice by (or via) Paul Mackin. Scroll
> down to it at:
>
> http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=K
>
> God, how I would love to have  a catalog of the attics, garages,
> basements, second-hand bookstores etc. where Pynchon wallowed in pulps and
> comics, c. 1945-1955.
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 5:29 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=_c17BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85&dq='The+Kenosha+Kid%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwim78Lw7OrMAhVFaT4KHfbaA-QQ6AEIPzAG#v=onepage&q='The%20Kenosha%20Kid%22&f=false
>>
>
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