Bus Driver Drunk Suicide

[Jeremy Osner]

There is also a maniac-bus-driver reference in Rushdie's _Haroun and the
Sea of Stories_ (tho he is not suicidal, just the opposite).

Jeremy

RICHARD ROMEO wrote:
> 
> 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
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