crying and frying

[Meg Larson]

How about Gaines' _A Lesson Before Dying_?  Truly remarkable book.

"Never look where you're going--you'll only scare yourself"--- P.J.
O'Rourke 

Meg Larson
Saginaw Valley State University
mgl at tardis.svsu.edu              

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> From: Craig Clark <CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: crying and frying
> Date: Tuesday, January 14, 1997 5:35 AM
> 
> Diana York Blaine <dyb0001 at jove.acs.unt.edu> asks:
> 
> > I'm planning a seminar next term on death, mourning and suicide in
> > literature.  Someone mentioned Werther--any other suggestions?  I
> > thought maybe Hamlet and Gerald's Party, inter alia. I'm not limited by
> > genre, period or geography.  Diana 
> 
> Well, definitely De Lillo's _White Noise_. For something a bit 
> lighter, Stephen King's _Pet Semetary_. Perhaps le Carre's _A Perfect 
> Spy_?
> 
> Craig Clark
> 
> "Living inside the system is like driving across
>  the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
>  on suicide."
>    - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"