Nose Operation

Henry Musikar gravity at pop.erols.com
Wed Jun 26 00:03:14 CDT 1996


How about Woody Allen's "Sleeper."

On 25 Jun 96 at 7:55, Brian D. McCary wrote:

> Date:          Tue, 25 Jun 1996 07:55:24 -0500
> From:          bdm at colossus.Storz.Com (Brian D. McCary)
> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org, andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
> Subject:       Nose Operation

> Andrew Dinn writes:
> "Apparently, the replacement noses often dropped off within a short
> space of time."
> 
> 
> Side question:  Could this have been the inspiration for Gogol's
> "The Nose?" I always thought that the loss of a nose was a very
> peculiar idea, but if happened to someone Gogol knew of heard of, it
> could certainly have suggested the rest of the story.
> 
> Brian McCary
> 
> 

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