pronounciation

[Wolfe, Skip]

>Paul DiFilippo filipped his lid and said:
> >Watching the Clinto-Dole debate last night, was I the only
> >person to distinctly hear our Prez talk about insuring that all
> >Americans had access to some kind of "Pynchon plan"?  I'm not
> >sure, but I think it has something to do with all of us reading
> >GRAVITY's RAINBOW after we retire!!!

And Craig added:
>I'm afraid you're mistaken, Paul. The original plan was supply every
>American household with access to free Pynchon texts, but then the
>Republicans objected and said that TRP was too "un-American" (a sop
>to the wing of the party which supported Buchanan), so Slick Willy
>Clinton struck a compromise deal to ensure that all Americans have
>access to some kind of "Pyncheon Plan", i.e. an abridged version of
>Hawthorne's "House of the Seven Gables".

I just picture thousands of senior citizens wearing godzilla shirts and 
baggy pants roaming the streets of the nation's major cities casting 
suspicious glances over their shoulders, occasionally breaking into bawdy 
song and a spontaneous two-step . . .