Pynchon Paranoiacs Unite!

[Byrnes Weir]

At 04:06 PM 1/29/97 -0600, Diana York Blaine wrote:
>Just after I read CoL49 my first year in graduate school I noticed that
>there were tiny pencil markings above every doorbell in my three-story
>student apartment building in Westwood--including tiny post-horns, among
>other things--and I seriously began to wonder what the hell was going on.
>Shortly after that a group of young men burst into our apartment
>uninvited and proceeded to eat our food, smoke our pot, and entertain us
>with frantic banter. Like the Whole Sick Crew only in a handsome clean-cut
>UCLA frat boy kind of way. My roommates and I kept asking each other
>"who are these guys?" and  "what are they doing here?" Later I wondered if
>the markings signified who was inside, like the messages that bums would
>post outside of homes during the Depression alerting fellow travelers to
>the fact that victuals could be had there. Maybe ours meant "chicks, pot
>and cookies." While I never found out what the deal was (nor does Oedipa I
>guess), needless to say I was fascinated, charmed, and hooked on Pynchon.
>-Diana
>
>
>yes



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