Pynchon's hero? Merrell Fankhauser Mu

[Joe Allonby]

http://www.merrellfankhauser.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrell_Fankhauser


On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:16 PM, da kid <peterock86 at live.com> wrote:

> Oh yeah I forgot to mention his band Mu. Does anyone recall the answer to
> the loan about the L.E.D. having the Buddha nature and also Mason's
> coefficient of mercy?
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> *From:* da kid <peterock86 at live.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 19, 2017 8:53:02 PM
> *To:* Pynchon-l
> *Subject:* Pynchon's hero? Merrell Fankhauser Mu
>
> Found out about this guy Merrell Fankhauser on the will for Inherent Vice.
> He sent a message to one of them after hearing that his band Fapardokly was
> mentioned in the New Yorker. He read  Inherent Vice and was taken aback by
> many "cosmic" references that seemed to be referring to him. His band
> released the version of Wipe Out without the laugh. He was big into the
> sunken continent of Lemuria and went to live in the jungle on Maui where he
> searched and found ancient relics. His girlfriend Mary Lee lived in the
> same place that Pynchon apparently writes that Shasta Fay lived. He looks
> like a Swedish Jesus.
>   In an interview he said he talked to P, or his friend did, and
> apparently Pynchon's a big vinyl collector and has his albums and saw him
> live back in the sixties. I have a sneaking suspicion that maybe they are
> connected a little closer than that. Who knows?
> Anyway he's all over Inherent Vice. The character called the Saint makes
> me think of him. But what's even more interesting to me is that he sounds
> like he could be the inspiration for the Swede (is his name Sven?) In Mason
> and Dixon. I didn't mention that Merrell has alot of UFO mythology in his
> music or style or whatever. UFO references are all over M&D as well as a
> race of advanced ancient beings. Sven it turns out doesn't hail from Sweden
> but is the member of some strange race of Giants from the far far north.
> Also he is quite the axeman. Sounds like this Merrell guy who wields an axe
> of his own.
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