Why Pynchon Moved East

[ckaratnytsky at nypl.org]

     She's UP!:
     
     >There it is. Tom Pynchon was an Annie Dillard groupie. Followed her 
     >back East, where all the women are INTELLECTUALS.
     
     She's DOWN!:
     
     >Right. And belong to the Junior League. And would never dream of
     >cleaning their own fish or working on a car.
     
     Intellectual Chris, who doesn't want to play this fuckin list game for 
     fear of leaving something out, was renown on the piers of 1960's Coney 
     Island as an expert fisherman.  She knows how to change oil and tires. 
      So, piss off.  ;-)
     
     Hmpf.
     
     Chris