dropping food on mine fields

[barbara100 at jps.net]

Are you starting to think it hurts good too, Paul?


----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: dropping food on mine fields


> Been having prurient lurker thoughts over this thread. Gazing through the
> small window of my computer screen upon the scene below I think of that
> other small Proustian window ( a scene in fact included in the recent
"Time
> Regained" movie).   Marcel,  perched on a chair in the corridor of the
male
> brothel (fatigued from wandering through wartime Paris he had mistaken
> Jupien's brothel for a respectable hotel),  peers through a small oval
> window into a darkened room where a figure is seen chained to a bed like
> Prometheus to his rock receiving blows rained upon him from a whip studded
> with nails. But,  no,  it is not the Baron de Charlus I see courtesy of
my
> own NEC multisync.  I  hear clearly the crack of the whip but there are no
> cries of pain. There is no "I beseech you, mercy, have pity, untie me,
don't
> beat me so hard?" No,  here is a much tougher customer to service.  I hear
> only "hit me harder you pikers, is that all you can come up with?"  and
> "please, whatever you do, don't stop."
>
> One thing you can say about Doug. He's tough.
>
> Sorry, on with the show.
>
>         P.
> .
>