Pynchon Disease

[RICHARD ROMEO]

disease as described by Levi-Valensi:  "thinks she no longer belongs to 
herself, that the ideas of others invade her thoughts, that her voice, 
her gaze and her sense of smell are those of another person."



patients with interpretation mania:  for whom the most trivial sentences 
are loaded with hidden meanings.  Objects too:  they discover messages in 
the mysterious color of a table; in the secret shape of an apple; in the 
unknown smell of bad breath.  letters in invisible ink, telegrams in code 
from hospital admin., they think



Palinuro, again



Richard Romeo

Coordinator of Cooperating Collections

The Foundation Center-NYC

212-807-2417

rromeo at fdncenter.org