Mish MAAS, Gates, & Wheelers

[Alan Westrope]

On Tue, 18 Jul 1995, <LOT64 at aol.com> wrote:

> Has anyone made the connection between Zoyd's transfenestration and the "one
> potential beserk studying the best technique for jumping through a plate
> glass window (when to scream Geronimo? before or after the glass breaks?)" we
> meet on the second page of V.?  Perhaps he was Zoyd's inspiration.

Thanks!  I, for one, hadn't noticed the connection; it's been quite a
while since I read _V_.  (It's next on my TRP-rereading list -- I'm
delighted with my decision to read _GR_ during the 50th anniversary of
D-Day-->Battle of the Bulge-->death camp liberations-->V-E Day, as
I have a much better seat-of-the-pants grasp of WW2 chronology now.)

Anyone see billg on the cover of the July 8th "Economist?"  The story,
on p. 57, is called "The Defenestration of Bill" and deals with the
Windows '95 rollout next month.  Hmmmm...one rarely encounters these
derivations of the "F" word outside of Pynchonia!  Nice to find an
articulate journalist, eh?

> Also, I was browsing through some old records and noticed that Artie Shaw had
> a big hit in the late 40's called Frenesi.  Or have I just forgotten that
> that was her parents reason for naming her?

I always thought this was common knowledge...even mentioned in the book
perhaps?  I can't recall the tune, though, and I probably played it as
a teenager at an Elks Club or somewhere equally exciting.  Maybe your note
will prod me to dig up a copy at a used record store or the library.  I *do*
know that it's pronounced FRENN-ess-ee; hence, I doubt that it's a deliberate
TRP pun on "free 'n' easy."


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