NP Topless woman causes power outage

[Doug Millison]

At 6:01 PM -0400 9/8/99, argus. wrote:
>It takes some people a while to get over Burning Man.   Relapses happen.

I've been monitoring an email discussion of SOMA web designers suffering BM
DTs,and not having had my own personal BM in the desert this year I'll stay
out of that one.

The thought struck me, that this ("Topless woman causes power outage") is
the sort of thing a person of a certain age might do instead of running off
on a wild goose chase as executrix "of the estate of one Pierce
Inverarity". She could have just dropped the acid, after all, and crossed
that bridge. If Chris the K was on the list and not on vacation I might
suggest this also as the sort of thing that could happen at the end of a
long night dealing with Pynchon-L output on a good day, but she's not so I
won't.  Reading this news story vs being up there knocking out the Grid --
the difference, perhaps, between living life and experiencing it
vicariously, as some of us do, myself included, through literature. Now,
inventing such a character and bringing her to life . . .  Pynchon as fire
breather, I like that.

Speaking of COL49, just got my renewal notice for the always-fine _Pynchon
Notes_ in the mail, sez here #40-41 should ship this month, with Charles
Hollander's article, please don't miss it, a tour de force in what you can
put together when you pay close attention to Pynchon's character names and
follow where they lead.

Also mentioned in the PN renewal flyer, the Vox Libris CD-ROM, The Narrated
_Gravity's Rainbow, sounds like fun, too:  "a critical reading/performance
of Thomas Pynchon's literary art by Project Vox Libris . . . . centers on
the idea of Europe as a Zone of conflicting human and technological forces,
the transformation of power in the ever-changing shapes of entertainment,
and the evolution of technology from V-2 missiles to space dreams and
computer mirages . . . . integrates criticism with animated digital collage
. . . theatre, and contemporary music into a compelling aural and visual
performance, transforming Pynchon's masterpiece of post-modern fiction into
Performance Art."  And it's only $12 plus postage. The flyer says watch for
an order form at the PN web site. Save at least one for me.

>> Topless woman causes power outage
>>
>> SEATTLE (AP) - A fire-breathing woman danced topless on an electrical
>> tower beside a freeway bridge for more than an hour this morning,
>> snarling rush-hour traffic and forcing a power outage to 5,000 homes
>> and businesses. The 37-year-old Olympia woman . . .

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