Pynchon in the SF Comical

[Doug Millison]

In Leah Garchick's "Personals" column today, back page of Datebook, on the
Web at
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/08/26/DD2
6043.DTL

GOP SURPRISES ARE EXPLAINED
Reading Tuesday's item about the number of Surprises and Delights in the
Republican Women's cookbook, Sally Mack recalled a passage from Thomas
Pynchon's ``Gravity's Rainbow'':

``There is something sadistic about recipes with `Surprise' in the title,
chap who's hungry wants to just eat you know, not be Surprised really, just
want to bite into the (sigh) old potato, and be reasonably sure there's
nothing inside but potato you see, certainly not some clever nutmeg
`Surprise!,' some mashed pulp all magenta with pomegranates or something .
. .''

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