poseurs in "pomographic magazines"

[Phil Wise]

Thanks for brightening up my off-work-sick morning, Doug

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From: "Doug Millison" <DMillison at ftmg.net>
To: "Pynchon-L (E-mail)" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: poseurs in "pomographic magazines"


>
> http://www.ireland.com/dublin/entertainment/books/carlo_gebler090601.htm
> excerpt:
> "Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's first novel, was published, with
> difficulty in Paris, in 1934. Joe, our Miller substitute in the book, is a
> 40-something American, engaged in writing a novel. As Joe struggles to
> write, he talks directly to the reader, in the free-wheeling manner of a
> stand-up comic of today about the life and times of himself and some
fellow
> expatriates. These men (and occasional women) are nothing like the
> prosperous Americans described by Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald. Joe's
> friends are hobo types with no money and plenty of attitude. To survive,
> they pose in pomographic magazines, work in brothels and rob whores."
>