DC Gathering

Craig Clark CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA
Wed Jan 15 08:51:08 CST 1997


WillL at fieldschool.com wrote:

> Recent references in our posts to the District of Columbia have prompted a
> couple of us to propose a DC summit meeting.  We can't supply Chrissie and Faera
> (though I would be willing to have MY wife and daughter show up and claim to
> know what brand of toothpaste Mr. Pynchon prefers) we can merely promise a
> seedy night at some dive.  Current discussions center around Millie & Al's in
> Adams Morgan, truly a wonderful dump.
> 
> We (Henry M and myself) don't know who we're inviting (Chris A.?, Paul M.?), but
> check in with one of us and we'll try to set something up.  We could even
> consider going to the Rathskeller place on Wisconsin Avenue (called the "Old
> Heidelberg" in "Entropy," but really called the "Old Europe" north of the
> "Social Safeway"), though the only time I've been in there was with my father
> and an old fling of his to my discomfort.
> 
> Hoping to hear from you!

Have one on me, foax. Sorry I can't make it, but next time HAG and I 
get together we'll do the same...

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"



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