Che?

LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Mon Mar 6 11:06:13 CST 1995


Polarick (did I get that right?) writes:
"Thomas Pynchon
has girl problems.  Now you're saying, "Indeed, that's
unusual.  I never heard anything like that before,'
but when I say girl I mean object of his affections,
whatever political objectives he hopes to achieve -
who knows? Utopian visions? A nicer climate?  What is
he hoping to get out of life? or put into it?  Maybe
by by making the object of desire a book or two about
characters who are not able to get what they desire,
he actuallt creates a relationship with the Creator
and subject, and all that's gone into him to give him
his prophetic nature and scientific knowhow are char-
acters themselves whose end (object) is to express
this relationship, but now I have no idea what I'm
saying.  Feeling a bit like a crash test dummy.  You
can learn alot from a time machine.  Thomas Pynchon
shuffled his feet.

polaRick, bearing West"

Nicely put!  And don't forget that Che also x-refs Senor Guevara, subject
of several hero-worshipping folk songs--and a macho icon of the New Left.

But, linguistically (being no linguist to speak of--and spare the puns
please!), Che also x-refs que? or as Benny Profane would say, "Wha?"

--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN
(With fond memories of Chez Hugh, Coventry--"Where Hospitality is our
motto!", full English breakfast included)



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