Great article, thanks. The surname Christmas appears in two other novels I can think of, Joe Christmas in William Faulkner's Light in August, and Willy G Christmas, owner of Mr Bones, the dog narrator of Paul Auster's Timbuktu. Can't remember if there's a dog in the Faulkner novel, but the Auster book also references to Steinbeck's Travels With Charlie (his poodle). The latter book is a whimsical journey through the US which ends with a searing indictment of racism in Louisiana. Faulkner's Joe Christmas is mixed race, a crucial part of the plot of the Faulkner novel. Not sure how any of this connects to Pynchon via the dog suit in Dumb and Dumber, or the guy in the bear suit in Kubrick's version of The Shining. I need a lie down.
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Holy shit. How’d I miss that? This goes so much deeper than I imagined.
Great article, thanks. The surname Christmas appears in two other novels I can think of, Joe Christmas in William Faulkner's Light in August, and Willy G Christmas, owner of Mr Bones, the dog narrator of Paul Auster's Timbuktu. Can't remember if there's a dog in the Faulkner novel, but the Auster book also references to Steinbeck's Travels With Charlie (his poodle). The latter book is a whimsical journey through the US which ends with a searing indictment of racism in Louisiana. Faulkner's Joe Christmas is mixed race, a crucial part of the plot of the Faulkner novel. Not sure how any of this connects to Pynchon via the dog suit in Dumb and Dumber, or the guy in the bear suit in Kubrick's version of The Shining. I need a lie down.
Speaking of Pynchon’s teeth, that’s how you know it’s not him in that Newport Festival photo. The guy in the photo doesn’t have the teeth.