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[David Nevin Friedman]

Hmmm....Dare I be so cynical that the American population at large is so
dumbed down that they could not hope to have the intelligence to read
Pynchon's novels (or any other literary texts)???

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than have a frontal lobotomy..."
		--Unknown

"You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to 
die, or when you're supposed to be loving.  You have to forget about all 
these things.  You have to go on and be crazy.  Craziness is heaven."
		--Jimi Hendrix

On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Craig Clark wrote:

> 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!!!
> 
> 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".
> 
> 
> Craig Clark
> 
> "Living inside the system is like driving across
> the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
> on suicide."
>    - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
>