Daffy Duck and the Upanishads

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Somehting me and couple of writer friends were discussing over Guinness 
earlier this week:  I made the claim that what makes Pynchon and writers 
of that ilk so great are the pop culture references along with major so 
called hi-brow stuff.  After skirting the issue somewhat I made the bold 
claim that if TS Eliot was brought up further along in the 20th Century 
he would be referencing Underdog's quest for Polly Pure-bread who was 
fiendishly hidden by Riff Raff or some such within a hot-air baloon, 100 
of which are floating nearby, fiendishly rigged up with individual record 
players all shouting the same thing.."help me underdog, help...etc, etc,; 
 only one has the real Polly..etc.etc.

Or poems written about the truest symbol of existential man-Wile E. 
Coyote (Super-Genius) instead of Homer, and Ahab, and all that lot.

  

Maybe I should go get another beer

I fear I make no sense.



I thought it was pure

and then it moved.



oh well, don't mind the man behind the madness...



Richard Romeo (looking for anyone in NYC with a Godzilla T-shirt)

Coordinator of Cooperating Collections

The Foundation Center-NYC

212-807-2417

rromeo at fdncenter.org