the karatnytsky caper

[kevin at limits.org]

On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, pynchon-l-digest wrote:
> Right in the middle of your favorite re-run of CHIPs, a female terrorist
> walks into your living room with a movie camera and an uzi and sez that, in
> 30 seconds, either your brains, your pot, or your kettle of curried banana
> stew will be spilled all over the shag carpet if you don't tell her who
> Gnossos Pappadopoulis is.  

He's the one who's just un-scropulous!

I used to look forward to the day when I'd be kidnapped by a vicious gang
of Pynchon scholars who would threaten all kinds of nastiness if I didn't
tell them everything I know about Vheissu, but I can see now that I would
_easily_ escape when the right head of the beast got into an argument with
the left head, just like the way Sir Robin bravely runs away, away in that
Holy Grail movie.