Bus Driver Drunk Suicide

[RICHARD ROMEO]

You know that quote--" 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"

Well, I'm 150 pgs into Marguerite Young's _Miss Macintosh, My Darling_ 
and what I can make out of the highly poetic, convoluted language is that 
4 characters are being driven across the bleak American countryside by a 
busdriver who is drunk and very suicidal.  Includes opium addiction, a 
Christian hang man named Mr. Weed, a militant horsewoman, balloonist, 
mountain climbing militant feminist, a Titus Bonebreaker of Chicago, 
self-styled wildman of God dreaming of a heavenly crown.  Published in 
'65.  Great read by the way.

Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org