Fwd: Van de Graaf

[Doug Millison]

This appeared on the PSYARTS list today.


>From:
>        Andrew Gordon <agordon at UFL.EDU>
>
>Mon 6:26 PM
>
>Speaking of Van de Graaf generators:
>
>
>"Pynchon was evidently a man of few words.  I wanted very much to talk with
>him, to sound him out, at least to get him to laugh, but as we sat on the
>floor and passed around buzz bombers and grew progressively more zonked, he
>didn't say much, just listened intently as our hostess and host and I
>talked. . . .  I thought of Pynchon as a Van de Graaf machine, one of those
>generators that keep building static electricity until a lightning bolt
>zaps between the terminals."
>
>from "Smoking Dope With Thomas Pynchon" by Andrew Gordon
>in _The Vineland Papers:  Critical Takes on Pynchon's Novel_ ed. Geoffrey
>Green, Donald J. Greiner, and Larry McCaffery
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>Or see http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/agordon/pynchon.htm
>
>
>
>Professor Andrew Gordon
>Department of English
>PO Box 117310
>University of Florida
>Gainesville FL 32611-7310
>
>Phone:  352-392-6650 x254
>        352-372-7264 (h)
>Fax:    352-392-0860  (UF Dept. of English)
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