Homer Simpson

[Dave Monroe]

... and do see Nathanael West's Cool Million: The
Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin (1934), cf. the
dismantling of The Bad Priest in Thomas Pynchon's V.
(1963).  But I can't find a Simpsons Yoyodyne
reference.  The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across
the 8th Dimension, of course, Star Trek: The Next
Generation, even, but ...

--- Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
> >
> >
> >Don't know whether this is old hat, and
> unfortunately I have never 
> >watched the Simpsons on TV, but there is a rather
> important character
> >named Homer Simpson in the book I am reading at the
> moment, Nathanael
> >West's "The Day of the Locust".
> >
> >Thomas
> >------------------
> much of the great black comedy of folks like West,
> Coover, DeLillo are 
> reflected in the mad goings on in Springfield--I'm
> sure the writers on the 
> Simpsons are quite familiar w/ the pomo
> heavyweights--I still say I once 
> heard Apu say that the Quickie-Mart was owned by
> Yoyodyne. d'oh!
> Rich
>
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