Smells like Pig Bodine

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This lurking member of this Whole Sick Crew of Pychonphiles reports a mention
of TRP in Neil Stauss's THE POP LIFE column, New York Times, Thursday,
February 1, 1996. It reads:

"ROOTS OF GRUNGE

Archivists studying the roots of grunge may be suprised to discover striking
correlations between song and modern literature.

"SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRI," the breakthrough hit by Nirvana...may have been
inspired by Thomas Pynchon's "GRAVITY'S RAINBOW." The song, fromthe album
NEVERMIND, contains such lines as "I feel stupid and cotagious" and "well,
whatever, nevermind." In GR, Pynchon writes, "they do biother him, these free
women in their teens, their spirits are so cotagious." He then launches into
spurious song, which contains the lines, "Spirit is so contay,-juss/Nobody
knows their a-ges" and several references to the lyric "nevermind."

"i don't think Cobain ever read GRAVITY'S RAINBOW," said Michael Azerrad, the
author of COME AS YOU ARE: THE STORY OF NIRVANA. It's probably a coincidence,
but it sure is freaky.' "

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