b-but the time frame?!

[Mark Kohut]

That "original' post refers to the one on the pynchon wiki which I quoted
to Peterthooper on my plist answer to his question.

It was my wiki post originally.

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 10:48 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- 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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