Genghis Cohen -- and Romain Gary

[rodney welch]

Anyone wishing to know what became of the offended and offending author, 
Mr. Romain Gary, may wish to consult a fascinating, daringly 
deconstructionist documentary called From the Journals of Jean Seberg.

Gary was married to the late actress, and appears to have been a real 
shit. Although the FBI was the principal culprit in her suicide, Gary 
was an abusive asshole who likely contributed substantially to her 
conclusion, in September of 1979, that life was not worth living.

A despondent Gary took his own life months later.

RIP, I guess.

RW 




Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> Good point, Mark. Guess the small insults problem is something you grow out of as well as into.
> 
>                         P.
> 
> ----------
> From:   Mark_Bell at maid.com[SMTP:Mark_Bell at maid.com]
> Sent:   Friday, March 21, 1997 9:56 AM
> To:     pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject:        Genghis Cohen letter
> 
>   Seeing as he wrote the letter in the sixties I think he must have got
>   over the 'small insults' problem by now, otherwise he'd have replied to
>   the Pulitzer Prize committees description of GR as 'unreadable and
>   obscene'. I've always thought, though, that something unreadable could
>   not at the same time be obscene.