Pynchon Paranoiacs Unite!
jester
jester at snet.net
Sun Feb 16 03:16:21 CST 1997
I'm not sure what Byrnes was trying to get across in his post, which
amounted to an address and phone number for something called, "POWERHOUSE."
(a gym perhaps?)
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else has had this experience? Have you
ever seen little Trystero horns or the intials W.A.S.T.E anywhere unexpected?
I've got it -- a mission, for all of us! Let's agree to a little subterfuge
of American (and Earthly) culture. Let's do some constructive grafitti!
Let's all start putting little Trystero horns all over the place -- and
W.A.S.T.E, too! Who knows... might even help usher in "The Revolution..."
Tomorrow I hit the local 7-Eleven!!!
JJ "JEster"
At 02:27 AM 02/16/1997 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
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