At the mountains of madness..

[Ted Samsel]

  Back in the mid-60's I'd been reading an awful lot of
WWII history (Shirer, etc..) in high school. I ran across
CATCH-22, since it was "about" that period and read it.
Somehow, there was either a blurb by Pynchon about Heller
or a blurb about Pynchon by Heller and I eventually glommed
on to _V_ and read it in study hall (it was in the library)
during my senior year ('66-'67).
  It's been downhill ever since.

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           "Eat some blackeyed peas and fried banana,
            smoke me a seegar from Havana,
            I'll be the King of Louisiana"   
                             (It's gonna be) PAYDAY  Porter Wagoner