Tyrone's "a-and

[Jules Siegel]

At 11:08 AM 04/30/97 -0400, Dan Schmidt <dfan at harmonixmusic.com> wrote:
>We had a conversation a while back on how to interpret a few speech tics in
Gravity's Rainbow, notably Tyrone's "a-and."

Chrissie said that Pynchon had a severe stutter when he tried to speak in
public. You'll find this in an evil work called "Lineland" that offers
answers to some of these questions by invading his sacred privacy gimmick.
Naughty, naughty, Jules. [Insert emoticon of man slapping his own wrist]
It's not a gimmick, it's a feature.

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