rec. reads

[Tresy Kilbourne]

>Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, but it really seems
>impossible to me to understand Pynchon without recourse to
>the "underground"/campus cult classic/black humor vein of the
>'Sixties.  Everything from Heller (and Farina, natch, whom no
>one's mentioned) thru Vonnegut, Jeremy Larner, Charles Simmons,
>minor Grove Press authors, DIVINE RIGHT'S TRIP, etc.  Nuh?
>PS:  I forwarded recently a message from Rudy Rucker on his
>latest dabblings in the imipolex line, if you're wondering
>where that came from.
>
Has anyone mentioned Zap comix? Check out, I believe, Larry the Plumber's
trip down the toilet to the land of the Snoids for what I always thought
was TRP's inspiration for Slothrop's infamous escape from the Roseland
ballroom...