Duck Soup

[William Voelker]

On Tue, 6 Dec 1994 m1nmw00 at FRB.GOV wrote:

> 
> 	I feel fairly foolish asking this, but as a new Pynchonite I may be
> behind the curve.  On the back of my copy of _Gravity's Rainbow_ there's
> a blurb from someone at the San Francisco Examiner that says, "This book will
> be compared to _Ulysses_ and _Duck Soup_."  Now I've read Ulysses (twice), but
> Duck Soup doesn't ring a bell.  I asked my (unhelpful) bookstore clerks, and 
> found no entry in Books in Print, so somebody help me out.  In the context of
> the quote it certainly sounds like a Milestone of 20th Century Literature, so 
> I would like to correct my ignorance.
> 
> 
> --Noah Williams
>   (m1nmw00 at frb.gov)
> 

I know I'm going to get the actors wrong, but if my memory is correct, it 
is a Marx Brothers film.

William Voelker
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