<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">can we please not group the new pynchon novel (and inherent vice) with countless (mostly bad) adjective noun titles???<br><br>i mean: IDLE HANDS, NAKED SOULS, LETHAL WEAPON, TRUE LIES, COLLATERAL DAMAGE, and numerous other schwarzenegger-infused films have those kinds of titles.<br><br><div> </div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> P-list <pynchon-l@waste.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, January 6, 2013 7:17:01 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Thinking on the....EDGE<br></font><br>
thanks Mark...<br><br>chipping in, Bleeding Edge is a 2-word phrase containing an<br>adjectiv(al gerund) and a noun, just as Inherent Vice is a 2 word<br>phrase containing an adjective and a noun...two books don't make a<br>series, but still...<br><br>like that spy guy,<br>the Alexandrine Hammock<br>the Byzantine Footlocker<br>the Caledonian Clothes-hamper<br>the Dalmatian Cheese-grater<br><br>etc etc<br></div></div>
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