I think I'm missing something . . .

[Tom Stanton]

Wolfe, Skip wrote:
> Incidentally, speaking of TRP's intro to BDSLILLUTM, my travels took me to
> Ithica (home of Pynchon's & Farina's alma mater Cornell), where I couldn't
> help wondering about the real-life equivalents of Farina's settings, or
> reflecting, "Yeah . . . I bet Pynchon used to walk up this very street . . .
> I bet he took a crap in this very stall . . .")

NYC has the same effect at first, but you gotta modulate it. TRP may
have
taken a dump in stall x but so did 10K+ Cornell kids who maybe went on
to
reengineer biology or rethink cosomology or open a Pizza Hut. Whatever
the reason the connection is a toilet -- Pynchonesque, true, but I doubt
the users were Malcolm X and/or John Kennedy. When is a dump just a
dump?