Fw: Re: Pynchon's Interview

[anthony coyne]

beckett didnt really consider himself irish : he said he would rather live in france at war than ireland at peace!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Otto" <o.sell at telda.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:16:17 +0200
To: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>, <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Re: Pynchon's Interview


> "Brookland -- I can drive you to Brookland."
> (Armin Mueller-Stahl in "Night on Earth")
> 
> Otto
> (never been at any of those places)
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
> To: "Otto" <o.sell at telda.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Pynchon's Interview
> 
> 
> > Funny thing is, three of these guys are Irish (so
> > don't go calling them English in Dublin ... or Boston,
> > Brooklyn, for that matter ...), and Beckett wrote and
> > published virtually everything of his in French first,
> > then translated it into English ...
> > 
> > --- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > the only guy I know who did that, my professor, has
> > > been forced by
> > > university politics in the English department to
> > > limit himself to English
> > > authors further on. Sad but true that it will be
> > > only Wilde and Lawrence,
> > > Beckett and Yates and no Lot 49 and GR.
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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