b-but the time frame?!

[Mark Kohut]

So, from two Plisters we learn that Pynchon DOES play the guitar, which
from one source quoted  I had forgotten (and did not know the other)  but
it seems Pynchon even said so on his Ford Foundation grant.

So, I stand by my original post re a possible writing in himself cameo in
AtD.

Grab the guitar; leave the ukelele and the cannoli.



On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 9:54 PM peterthooper at juno.com <peterthooper at juno.com>
wrote:

> 2fer the asking!
> Pretty nice, thanks, Mark.
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> ---------- 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
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Who? Where?
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