In Which John Le Carre sorta does NOT make an appearance.

[Joseph Tracy]

The tone seems different but it seems like he could have roughed out the arc of the story. After GR the shlemiel characer of V and GR disappears ( Profane and Slothrop are hard to tell apart), and  the class issues come forward more as a living resistance to the plans of the oligarchs. Slothrop escapes but Papa Traverse blows shit up.

Aug 31, 2017, at 11:46 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Formerly TRAVERSE MACHINE. 
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> TRP musta been deep into Against the Day at this time. If that made all the labor history
> be in the front of his mind. 
> And/or never forgotten. 
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> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 11 Revelations From Salman Rushdie’s Memoir, ‘Joseph Anton’
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> 9. Pynchon Emerges:
>  Almost every major writer lent their support to
> Rushdie during the fatwa years (with the notable exception of John le
> Carré.) One of them, “another famous invisible man,” was Thomas
> Pynchon, and this gave Rushdie particular excitement. The two dined
> together during one of Rushdie’s New York trips, and Pynchon spoke at
> length about American labor history. They never met again after that.
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