While We Stand Aside and Look

[Nikola Bonobo]

1.Anybody got an estimate of Pynchon's IQ?

2.What do you think Marilyn vos Savant thinks of him?

3.Leonardo da Vinci versus Pynchon,
brain radiation contest. Who wins?

4.Has anyone noticed that the Grateful Dead
lyricist Robert Hunter shares Pynchon's
Rilke influence?

5.Has anyone checked out Robert Hunter's
The Bride of Entropy?

6.Who is The Duke? Is he friends with The Archduke?

7.Shall we attempt to flatten it all out?

8.How can I escape this hyperdimensional
gambit without dying?

9.Does anyone want to help me build The Arc?

10.Has anyone on this list been
professionally tagged 'schizotypal'?

11.How many people are reading this?

12.Why don't sharks eat clowns?

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

14.Why are you being tested?

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

16.Any members of The Punctured Class?

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

18.Have there been discussions on this list
of 23 synchronicities vis-a-vis Pynchon?

19.Two Words: Gravity's Leprechaun. Comment.

20.Who is the most passionate contributor to this
list?

21.Who is the most disturbed contributor
to this list?

22."That banana shaped object is no banana."
Anyone know where this came from?

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

If anyone feels that these question are
disrespectful, pompous, nugatory,
inappropriate, or just plain stupid,
I deeply apologize ahead of time
and insist that I am nevertheless a
fountain of incontinent sincerity,
compelled by the almighty unobvious.







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