MJJG: intertextual link-o-mania - 115 al fine

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 18:09:49 UTC 2021


Clearly Warhol was the target.  I think Pynchon also targets Warhol in V
with the painter in the Whole Sick Crew who painted endless varieties of
knishes (or was it bagels, I forget).

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:05 AM Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> I did not mean to insult Andy Warhol, if that is what you are referring
> to. Also, one would of course have to take into account who is talking
> to whom here, and to what purpose.
>
>
> Am 15.01.2021 um 16:15 schrieb Mark Kohut:
> > HELL NO, IN THUNDER as Melville writes.....
> >
> > C'mon, man....
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:05 AM Thomas Eckhardt
> > <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de <mailto:thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     pg. 112 in the Penguin Modern Classics edition:
> >
> >     "1 of these days 1 of our sons, perhaps the son of a Polish
> immigrant,
> >     will emerge from some steel town in Pennsylvania and mount a turd on
> >     the
> >     wall of a museum and make it stick. . .and when you ask him what it
> is
> >     he will put on his dark glasses and snub you the way you did us."
> >
> >     This is, more or less, Andy Warhol, no?
> >
> >       > 8) pg 135 - _Moby-Dick_
> >       > (Musclewhite horrified that a black person dared to interpret it)
> >
> >     pg. 114: An anachronistic reference to C.L.R. James' "Mariners,
> >     Renegades and Castaways" (1953), perhaps? Or are there other
> candidates?
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> >
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