Favorite Stanley scenes

[Mitchell R Coffey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Osner <jeremy at xyris.com> at Internet
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 2:16 PM
> To: Mitchell R Coffey <Mitchell_R_Coffey at vitro.com> at INTERNET
> Cc: The Great Quail <quail at panix.com> at INTERNET; pynchon-l at waste.org
> at INTERNET
> Subject: RE: Favorite Stanley scenes
>
>
> Mitchell R Coffey wrote:
>
> > Yes, our soldiers marching through the ruins of Hue,
> buring, singing "Who's
> the
> > leader of the club that's made for you and me...".  This
> image is for the
> > Vietnam war what the "Slim Pickins rides the bomb down"
> scene in _Dr.
> > Stranglove_ is for the Cold War in full.
>
> Reminds me of the variant of that song that goes,
>
> (all together now)
> Mao Tse-Tung, (Ho-Chi Minh!),
> Mao Tse-Tung, (Ho-Chi Minh!),
> M A O, T S E, dash T U N G!

I hadn't seen this one, but the sung-out "dash" turns it
from hardly much at all into a work of genius.

Mitchell Coffey
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