Farnina and Pynchon

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On Mon, 10 Apr 1995, Andrew Dinn wrote:

> Michael G. Koopman writes:
> 
> > The knotting point?  Channeling four 'ere's?  Ben phonie,
> > y'all bones bin funny, ratz your finger bounced.  snappy
> > little concept WB cartoon bunnies been fuzzy, real fuzz-ie.
> > That briar badger is snotty, ain't she; every Sunny doris
> > warrent you commissioned?  (nay, lid cracked it, huh.)
> 
> > bing-oes bongs off,
> 
> I don't want to get totally anal about this but as I recall this list
> is supposed to be for discussion of Pynchon. Now I know one ought to
> allow a little latitude to correspondents since any half-decent
> discussion has to avoid the subject at least half the time (those two
> halves don't necessarily overlap). But I cannot for the life of me see
> any relevance direct or indirect in the above note to the writings of
> TRP. If Mr Koopman needs to masturbate in public that's fine by me so
> long as his emissions serve to uncover some of THEIR invisible ink.
> Unfortunately, his channels appears to be tuned to white noise.
> 
> 
> Andrew Dinn
> -----------
> O alter Duft aus Maerchenzeit / Berauschest wieder meine Sinne
> Ein naerrisch Heer aus Schelmerein / Durchschwirrt die leichte Luft
> 




I think that some of the Joy of Koopman is that he, in his 
incomprehensibility, throws a twist into our fine-n-dandy academic 
discussion.  White noise, perhaps, but does he really contribute less 
than anyone else to our fine discussion of Pynchon?  
Vale,
A