Happy Birthday TRP

Laura Kelber laurakelber at gmail.com
Sat May 9 15:40:33 UTC 2020


Aha! Thanks!

On Sat, May 9, 2020, 10:43 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's Maskelyne's 29th birthday, and "'Twas last week, anyway." (...) "O,
> inhospitably final year of any Pretense to Youth (...)" p.118
>
> Am Sa., 9. Mai 2020 um 16:20 Uhr schrieb Laura Kelber <
> laurakelber at gmail.com>:
>
>> There's a scene in M&D (leafing through my book, I can't seem to find it,
>> but maybe someone else can?) where there's a celebration, or at least
>> acknowledgement of Mason's 29th birthday. It contains one of my favorite
>> Pynchon quotes. Something about 29 being the last prime before one enters
>> the prime of life, signalled by 30, which is anything but prime. Anyone
>> know it?
>>
>> On Sat, May 9, 2020, 5:42 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Apart from Xmas eve, 1955?
>> >
>> > Am Sa., 9. Mai 2020 um 10:12 Uhr schrieb Cometman via Pynchon-l <
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>> >
>> > > trying to think...any birthday scenes in any of the oeuvre?
>> > >
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