Nirvana and Pynchon

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

Ok.  We, any of us who know of and/or admire Cobain will most likely now 
rush to search our texts for a "clue," and it may be interesting, and we 
may learn something, so your message is quite valuable.  But give Kurt a 
break.  It seems to me that he was highly intelligent and that his 
intelligence factored into his culmination of attributes of an 
'underground man.'  Now that I've said that, I would suggest that somewhere 
in the 'Byron the Bulb' section, we might find illuminating text  
(when the light's out/it's less dangerous. . .)

Next, they'll be blaming Kurt's suicide on Pynchon.  Phew. . .


On Mon, 4 Jul 1994, Chris Stolz wrote:

> Hey, just out of curiosity---> in this month's _Esquire_, there
> is a stupid article by Steven Wright about the last horrible days
> of Cobain's life.  In this article there is menthion that he got
> inspired to write some of "Teen Spirit"'s lyrics by a passage in
> Pynchon's _Gravity's Rainbow_.  Anybody got any ideas about
> this--true, false, which passage, could Cobain actually read such
> a book, etc, etc.
> 
> 
> chris
> cstolz at acs.ucalgary.ca
>