Your several IPW abstracts, which world leaders read TRP
David Casseres
casseres at apple.com
Mon Sep 8 12:51:50 CDT 1997
Eric sez
>Hello, all you fab p-list folks. Just to say I am a bit of the walking
>wounded at the moment---five stiches and a limp. In fact I think I may
>have two limps, one inside and one out, although I don't know what
>it is I am trying to say.
Good lord. Here's wishing you a speedy and educational recovery.
>PS---I am going to get Prince Charles to read Gravity's Rainbow---
>the only way to save him is to turn him into a cheery, cackling
>mad obsessive bastard.
He can read?
>...By the way, which world leader, minus Havel in Ceck, is most likely
>to read Pynchon? Does Clinton keep a copy in his footlocker? Mandela?
>Maybe Mary Robinson of Ireland? I like Mary Robinson. I think I may have
>had a drink with her and Havel once, but that may have been a dream.
After some hard thought, I find it impossible to think of a single world
leader except Havel and maybe Mandela (and I'll take your word on
Robinson) whom I can imagine reading more than a paragraph of Pynchon.
Sad state of affairs, sez I. But perhaps I'm wrong, and it's a good
question to think about. Imagine a world in which Presidents and
Chairpeople and such competed by trying to top each others' exegeses of,
say, the Learned English Dog.
Cheers,
David
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