Rosemary scored the second highest score on the aptitude test when she joined the WAVES. She was assigned to Naval Intelligence where she spied on Russian radio transmissions. A real James Bond fell in love with her, and remained by her side in the dark, until the both died. He worked on Rosemary’s genealogy during the dark scrum for Christine’s legacy. I suspect my ex, Mary Ann Tharaldsen, was recruited. She got a job at Boing, and invited her husband to be, Thomas Pynchon, to work there. There is a rumor Tom went to Mexico to meet Lee Harvey Oswald. Gravities Rainbow was inspired by Pynchon’s work at Boing. Rosemary worked at Rucker in Emeryville who helped put men in space. Then she worked for Big Bone Remmer, making porno movies. She dated Errol Flynn when she was seventeen. She did not know she was related to Ian Fleming and Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor. This fact, drastically changes the history of her life. I put this history together while the law firm of Morris and Buck blessed the outsiders.
Royal Rosamond knew the Black Mask authors who had an influence on Pynchon, as did James Bond.
John Presco
Black Mask Authors
This extremely rare photo of the first west coast Black Mask get-together on January 11, 1936 captures possibly the only meeting of several of these authors.
Pictured in the back row, from left to right, are Raymond J. Moffatt, Raymond Chandler, Herbert Stinson, Dwight Babcock, Eric Taylor and Dashiell Hammett. In the front row, again from left to right, are Arthur Barnes (?), John K. Butler, W. T. Ballard, Horace McCoy and Norbert Davis.
Rosemary told me her father, Royal Rosamond, used to sail to the Channel Islands and camp with his friend, Dashiell Hammett who is seen standing on the right in the photo above.
Aunt Lillian told me she would fall asleep listening to Royal and Erle Stanley Gardner on the typewriter in the living room. Royal was Gardner’s teacher and a member of the Black Mask. I believe I can almost recoginize Black Mask authors under the tree on Santa Cruz Island sitting under a tree with my grandmother, Mary Magdalene Rosamond, who does not look very happy as she embraces a black dog. Who is that woman? Is she a writer? She looks a bit crazed, as does the guy holding a gun. Is Mary hearing some far-out and weird ideas around the campfire?
When I was fifteen Rosemary showed me about six magazines wherein her father’s stories appeared. There were several mysteries. I am going to send the camping photo to some experts. That looks like Raymond Chandler in front of the tent. Is he the guy packing heat?
Hammett wrote the Maltese Falcon that begins with a story about the Knight Templars. Was this a tale passed around the campfire on Santa Cruz Island?
Jon Presco
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Rosamond Press 
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