Wired/Pinche alambristas

George Haberberger ghaberbe at frontiernet.net
Fri Sep 20 05:09:44 CDT 1996


At 08:52 PM 9/16/96 -0400, Ted Samsel wrote:
>RRomeo sez:
>
>> October 96 issue of Wired has list of tired/wired things (what's 
>> in/what's out).  Tired:  David Foster Wallace .  Wired:  Thomas Pynchon.  
>> (whatever that means)

And our hero is mentioned on page 208 of the October WiReD, where they talk
about data traffic following a Poisson distribution:

"and, perhaps most famously, the fall of bombs and Sothrop's sexual
encounters around London in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow."

article by Steve Steinberg

George

>
>Whut? No mention of PALINURO OF MEXICO? (The Brits can't translate Mexican
>worth a hoot! But a fine example of whatever this genre is.....)
>Not for the squeamish. He he he. Es un ejemplo del General Budin, above and
>beyond.
>
>> By the way:  Opening of Pope's Rhino reminds me of opening of 2001...
>
>I hear the urban hygiene in El Rhino de Papa is graphic....
>
>Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net  "Took all the money I had in the bank,
>                               Bought a rebuilt carburetor, 
>                               put the rest in the tank."
>                                USED CARLOTTA.. 1995
>
>
>



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