Fw: Re: b-but the time frame?!

[matthew cissell]

Dear all,

  I have to clarify something. Some time ago I responded to Mr. Peter
Hooper about AtD and he has since posted it to the list. I really should
have checked my notes given that my first response was dashed off to him. I
have since gone back to look at my dissertation and notes and have found
that I did not make that exact claim (about the confirmation name being
Christopher) in my doctoral thesis. My 'certainty' at the moment of writing
can only be attributed to confabulation. Mea culpa. Apologies to all.

I do still stand by my other arguments for Kit as the protagonist in AtD
that stands closest to Pynchon. My thesis does not hinge on the
confirmation name.

Respectfully,
Matthew C. Cissell

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On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 1:49 PM peterthooper at juno.com <peterthooper at juno.com>
wrote:

>
> Forwarding to list, after gaining concurrence from Matthew
> (thank you!)
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> From: "peterthooper at juno.com" <peterthooper at juno.com>
> To: mccissell at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: b-but the time frame?!
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 02:06:28 GMT
>
> Thanks for this.
> I don't think you copied the p-list.
> I started to but decided to leave that up to you.  Is that dissertation
> online someplace? It sounds interesting. Kit does seem to have the most
> agency of any of the characters. Didn't know that about Pynchon's baptismal
> name (or Joyce's.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
> To: peterthooper at juno.com
> Subject: Re: b-but the time frame?!
> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 10:58:49 +0200
>
> Salutations to you Mr. Hooper and the Plist,
> A good number of you know that Pynchon was raised a practicing catholic
> and that involves confirmation and a confirmation name. James Joyce took
> the name Aloysius.  Do you know what name Pynchon took? Saint Christopher.
> What is the diminutive of Christopher? Commonly, Chris but also... Kit.
> Please note that Kit is the real protagonist of the novel and the only one
> who betrays his father by choosing another career (switching fields so to
> speak) just as Pynchon did when he switched from engineering to English
> Literature. What's more is that both Pynchon and Kit have somewhat
> elliptical paths that take them back 'home' via love. Pynchon goes
> from Long Island to Cornell to the west coast and then Mexico and later
> Texas for a bit, and a few other places in between, before he comes back to
> the NY. Inversely, Kit goes from Colorado to Yale and then to Germany as
> escape turns to wandering further East before an astounding twist takes him
> back west to the gal of his dreams.
> That is a very brief summary of part of what I argue in my doctoral
> dissertation.On this view, Pynchon doesn't have a cameo so much as a
> protagonist that stands in relation to the author not very unlike Frederic
> in Sentimental Education stands to Flaubert.
> Sincerely,Matthew C. Cissellaka mc otis
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 6:02 AM peterthooper at juno.com <
> peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:
> quoth Mark Kohut:
>
> I like the P cameo possibility. I think there is one in ATD.
>
>
> Who? Where?
>
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