Warped and Distilled?

[Michael D. Workman]

At 08:38 PM 1/12/99 -0600, you wrote:
>hmmm... so where was pynchon's fiction thusly described? what was the
context 
>for the subject-line's phrase? to me "warped and distilled" sounds like an 
>accolade for a writer of satire....

Let's not forget how Primo Levi begins his novel, _The Periodic Table_ with
the phrase "Distillation is beautiful."


Cheerio,

Michael Workman
Northwestern University
Department Of Cardiology
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"My younger brother asked me what happens after we die.  I told him we get
buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should
have told him the truth--that most of us go to hell and burn eternally--but
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