All ya gotta do is speed-browse this.....but if you've read GR once

[John Bailey]

(but yeah, lots of quotes from his letters that I haven't seen either!)

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 8:27 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is Severs' pretty excellent paper, which looks at the period Pynchon
> lived in Seattle (1960-1962): http://tcl.dukejournals.org/
> content/62/2/145.full
> The other piece seems to be cribbed from it by a writer who maybe hasn't
> read Gravity's Rainbow... but that's conjecture.
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 8:20 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't think any of these are Pynchon quotes, but you have to read
>> closely to catch that.  I think they're by "British Columbia scholar
>> Jeffrey Severs in the latest issue of *Twentieth Century Literature*,
>> “making *Gravity’s Rainbow* in part a Seattle history.”"
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:47 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> were we aware of these quotes from his letters? they're not familiar to
>>> me
>>>
>>> rich
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:30 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From the article:  "Thomas Pynchon, Seattle’s most-honored and
>>>> influential writer"
>>>>
>>>> Who knew Pynchon was "Seattle's" ?
>>>>
>>>> David Morris
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Holy Cow! No freaking way!
>>>>>
>>>>> I KNEW there was something weird about that damn Century 21 fair...
>>>>> particularly after this wonderful MST3K short that I've been obsessing
>>>>> over for years!
>>>>>
>>>>> This gives me shivers, folks. Seriously... to find this out at this
>>>>> point in time... wow.
>>>>>
>>>>> WATCH THIS! Maybe Pynchon was among those caught on camera?
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyi_q7hIOmw
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > .....to learn of the Seattle Fair, Von Braun's visit and words that
>>>>> are in
>>>>> > GR...a genesis of the novel is
>>>>> >
>>>>> > fascinating for all,  not just Pynchon nerds
>>>>> >
>>>>> > http://seattlemag.com/how-thomas-pynchon-turned-seattle-nazi-germany
>>>>> -
>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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