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

[rich]

there are the sealed letters at the Morgan Library. far as I know they're
still off limits but those are the Donadio correspondence. thought quoting
from the Ransom Center collection was verboten as well.

rich

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 4:27 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> (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/co
>> ntent/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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