not-Wallace

[Grant White]

Gosh that's spooky.

I've just finished reading "satanic verses" and am starting the "Moor's 
last sigh" Coincidence or does that say something about literature and 
author tours (Rushdie was recently in Aus to promote "sigh"). 

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On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, White, Rich wrote:

> 
> Me, just finished The Moor's Last Sigh and about to complete (several years 
> late) Satanic Verses.  Both highly recommended.  Maybe Midnight's Children 
> is SR's though.
> 
> As for Wang Dang Doodle  -  Best is without a doubt Howlin Wolf's.  hands 
> down.
>  ----------
> .*++From: owner-pynchon-l
> .*++To: CO27447; SY19058
> .*++Cc: pynchon-l
> .*++Subject: Re: not-Wallace
> .*++Date: Tuesday, March 26, 1996 10:42AM
> .*++
> .*++<<File Attachment: HEADERS.TXT>>
> .*++
> .*++>
> .*++>
> .*++>        Just to assure anybody who might have wondered lately: some of 
> us are
> .*++> NOT deeply into Infinite Jest. For example, I'm reading Bharati 
> Mukherjee's
> .*++> The Holder of the World at the moment.
> .*++
> .*++I'm reading Salman Rushdie's MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN; just finished Madison
> .*++Smartt Bell's ALL SOUL'S RISING.
> .*++>
> .*++>                          Secret histories indeed,
> .*++
> .*++I used to work for an historian. She'd go ballistic when I would ask her
> .*++if history was truth or facts. Then, I was reading Carlos Fuentes'
> .*++TERRA NOSTRA.
> .*++
> .*++>
> .*++> P.S. I am not, nor have never been, Al Wang.
> .*++>
> .*++Do they know about the blues song WANG-DANG-DOODLE?
> .*++
> .*++"Tell Automatic Slim,
> .*++tell Razor-totin' Jim,
> .*++we gonna pitch us all a Wang-Dang-Doodle
> .*++all night long
> .*++all night long
> .*++all night long."
> .*++
> .*++I like Koko Taylor's version.
> .*++
> .*++Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net  *1996* Year of the 
> Accordion~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> .*++         "Home of the brave, land of the free,
> .*++          I don't want to be mistreated by no bourgoisie."
> .*++                                     Huddie Ledbetter
> .*++
>