MF Beal

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

Andrew Dinn responds:
I have only read `Mumbo Jumbo' but I would also go so far as to call
it `stunning' and in many ways very Pynchon-like.

> p.s. I also like M.F. Beal.

Is she the one who wrote about rock life-forms changing in time-frames
(deltas) of geological proportions?

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Yes, also author of ANGEL DANCE, a nice (though not great) attempt to do
a radical Chicana lesbian as hard-boiled detective, about two decabes
(decades, that is) before the current spate of female hard-boiled
detectives.  She also has some kind of book about alternative communal
life that I haven't read, but have always wondered if it might connect
to the Counterforce and/or 24fps in VINELAND.

And what about that David Shetzline, her once-husband?  Did he o.d. on
Oneirine (sp?) or is he still around?

--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN