Cobain's reading habits

[Marshall Joseph Armintor]

In response to Rasmussen's post, yeah, there are a few words in common with
the lyrics of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and the song on p.538 -- the one 
linked with Pirate Prentice in the 'Dear mom and dad, I put a couple of people
in hell today..." episode.  (By the way, I think that epigraph's the single 
funniest joke in the book.  Can't explain it, I think it's hysterical.)  
But I don't know what you could say about the parallel -- it's there, but...
   Cobain was, as reported in an issue of Esquire (October, could be) last 
year, a great reader of Rimbaud, etc. like most of the first punk wave and 
everybody's pretentious high school friends, but he also read a lot of 
Beckett apparently.
   But an even MORE interesting GR reference was in the Rolling Stone interview
with Courtney Love (November?) -- about three pages in, she describes life
without him and masks some remark like, "yeah...after he died, I used to talk
to him all the time...now he's dissipated, there's just not much left to 
talk to anymo..."   Compare that to Bodine's audience with the fading Slothrop,
740-742.  It's not terribly unique (one naturally feels the presence of the 
dead after burial, anyway), but the way Love described it, and the language
she used, truly gave me the willies -- and I'm not restricting that to a 
comparison with Pynchon's writing.  You'd have to look at the article.

marshall