While We Stand Aside and Look

[Derek C. Maus]

On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Nikola Bonobo wrote:

> 13.Where, exactly, is the Prairie of Desperate Immensity?

I think you hang a left at the Slough of Despond, pass a Hardee's on your
right, go about two miles until you see a road sign for "Sunnyvale Court."
There should be a row of mailboxes across from that, the third one of
which is the Prairie of Desperate Immensity.

> 14.Why are you being tested?

To get cheese. Duh.

> 15.Have any of you seen The Old Ones> who tend to float upside down with
> luminous skin? 

Not since they cancelled "Cocoon: The Series" on UPN.

> 17.Do you ever get the feeling that Thomas Pynchon is watching you?

No, I get the feeling Paul Auster is watching me watch him.

> 23.Were any of you completely discouraged from adolescent dreams of
> literary greatness after discovering Pynchon? 

Nah. I just decided to ride his coattails through graduate school instead.

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