User talk:Blz 2049

--Jan Kameníček (talk) 08:13, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Proofreading
Hello. Thanks very much for Aerospace Safety, it is a really interesting contribution! When you proofread the pages, if you are satisfied with your work, you can directly mark the page as "proofread". As for notes: we add only such which are part of the original text, we do not add our own annotations to the work. Thanks again and keep up the good work! --Jan Kameníček (talk) 08:20, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
May I ask how you know that the author "Thomas H. Pynchon" is in fact Thomas Ruggles Pynchon? Is he the same one as Thomas Pynchon? It would be good to found an author page for him here in Wikisource, but first we have to be sure about his identity. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 08:25, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Jan! Thank you for your kind notes above. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon's authorship of "Togetherness" is extensively noted in bibliographical and biographical sources. See the sources at Thomas Pynchon bibliography § Nonfiction and correspondence ("Togetherness" is his earliest nonfiction work, so it's at the top of that list). The discrepancy of the middle initial being "H." in the article's byline is also widely noted in bibliographic sources, but the consensus is that it is not another Thomas ("Huggles"?) Pynchon. The "H." is typically chocked up as an error. (Isn't that just where you like to see a careless error—in a technical article published by the US military about safety standards for air transport of missiles?) Pynchon is also a notoriously slippery character with a penchant for mischief and a clear preference for privacy, so there's a possibility that he somehow contrived for the Air Force to print his name ever-so-slightly wrong. Brandt Luke Zorn (talk) 08:41, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Figured I'd some additional context about why scholars know that the Thomas Pynchon—middle name Ruggles, born 1937—wrote "Togetherness", and not someone else, to save you some of the trouble of digging around. Pynchon is known to have worked as a technical writer for Boeing during the period February 22, 1960–September 13, 1962. Boeing, of course, works closely with the US Military and its Air Force in particular. Scholars have interviewed a number of TRP's former co-workers, who have confirmed his authorship and provided other substantiating information. Adrian Wisnicki's 2000–01 article "A Trove of New Works by Thomas Pynchon? Bomarc Service News Rediscovered" (doi:10.16995/pn.88) is probably the best freely available overview of this topic, and that article is no cherrypicked outlier. There is uniform agreement among recent scholarly sources that "Togetherness" is really Pynchon's work; I haven't encountered any reliable source that casts serious doubt on his authorship (cf. Google Scholar search for "'Thomas Pynchon' 'Togetherness'"). Brandt Luke Zorn (talk) 09:14, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I see, thanks very much for detailed explanation. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 10:28, 4 November 2021 (UTC)