-YNCHON NOTES Editors John M. Krafft English Department Suffolk County Community College ‘Western Campus Brentwood, NY 11717-1092 Khachig Télolyan English Department Wesleyan University Middletown, CT 06457-6061 Bernard Duyfhuizen English Department University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004 Pynchon Notes is published twice a year, in Spring and Fall. Subscriptions: $4.00 per single issue or $7.00 per year. Overseas airmail: $5.50 per single issue or $10.00 per year. Checks should be made payable to Bernard Duyfhuizen — PN. Manuscripts, notes and queries, and bibliographic information should be addressed to John M. Krafft. Subscriptions and back issue requests should be addressed to Bernard Duyfhuizen The editors welcome submission of manuscripts either in traditional form or in the form of text files on floppy disk. Disks may be 5.25" or 3.5": IBM. compatible preferred. Convenient formats include, in ascending order, ASCII, WordStar 3.3, DCA Revisable, and WordPerfect 4.1 or later. Copyright 1989 John M. Krafft, Khachig Totélyan, and Bernard Duyfhuizen ISSN 0278-1891BACK ISSUES, Notes has been published since October, 1979. ne most back issues are nou out of print, they arc available in the form of photocopies. Nos. 1- 4: $1.50 per issue; Overseas, $ 2.50, mailed via air/printed matter. Nos. 5-10: $2.90 per issue; Overseas, $ 3.50, mailed via ait/printes matter. Nose 11-17% $3400 per isavey Oversee: alr/printed matter. No. 18-18: $7400; Gvorseas, $10.00, mailed via ait/printed matter $ 4,50, nailed via Photocopies of Khachig TAIBlyan and Clay Leichton's Index to all the nanes, other capitalized nouns, and acronyis in Gravity's Rainboy ‘are also available. Index: $5.00; Overseas, $6.50, mailed vie air/printed matter. ALL checks should be made payable to Bernard Duyfhutzen-Pll. Overseas checks must be payable in US dollars and payable through an American bank or an Anerican branch of an overseas bank.PYRAJCHON OTES 20-21 spring - fall 1987 The Death of the Re: Maurice Couturier Gravity's Rainbau's Golden Sections ‘That Other Sentimental Surrealist: Valter Ben anin William avers in The Crying of Lot 49 Gravity's Novel: A Note on the Genre of Gravity's Rainbow The Wind at ZuBlfkindert Technology and Personal. Identity in Gravity's Rainbow ‘Toseph Tabby, How I Learned to Stop Worrying Paul Coleman luho!'s Talking Here: Finding the Voice in Gravity's Rainbow jacqueline F. Snetak Death lias No Eneny: A Note on Thenas Pynchon, Wilfred Owen, and the First orld War Roger A Berger Pynchon's Parker Passage: A Source and Sound Analysis. Gerhard Westerath a 33 et 68 105 109