b-but the time frame?!

[peterthooper at juno.com]

2fer the asking! 
Pretty nice, thanks, Mark.





---------- Original Message ----------
From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
To: peterthooper at juno.com
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Re: b-but the time frame?!
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 12:33:20 -0400

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 202Cooper
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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