b-but the time frame?!

[Mark Kohut]

My supposition may have faded since I wrote this. This is from the pynchon
wiki. The follow-ups at the wiki are good. Just a half-hidden lyre-playing,
so to speak, artist analogy, which ropes him, Pynchon, in as artist
inevitably. Had it BEEN a ukelele, then it would jump out at us as obvious.
Therefore I maybe shouldn't have written about it now. Shows how we
remember our own notions even when we now think they were not the best. As
Nietzsche wrote of memories, I think(! the irony!!), they ride on pride not
humility. Also notice at the wiki the pretty nice possibility that he wrote
himself into GR in an Osbie Feel paragraph. Page 202

*Cooper*
In the spirit of Icelandic Spar doubling, is it possible that the
description of 'young gent Cooper' is Pynchon writing himself into ATD?
Pynchon is reportedly shy and one of the supposed reasons given for why he
never wanted his picture taken was that his upper teeth protruded and he
did not like his portrait. Cooper sits astride a black and gold V-twin (!),
produces a "Cornell" model Acme guitar, 'which now and then found strange
notes added into the guitar chords, as though Cooper had hit between the
wrong frets, only somehow it sounded right,' a pretty good analogy of
Pynchon's bizarre but powerful prose style. Cf. Pynchon and his music
connections and the trope (from Homer on) of musicians as the archetypal
artists. Pynchon reportedly played the ukulele, so perhaps he also plays
guitar. Perhaps this Cooper is an amalgam of himself and his great deceased
school friend, Richard Farina?

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 11:57 PM 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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