Humpty Dumpty Restored: When Disorder Lurches Into Order

[Doug Millison]

"However... accept this financial stipulation - ah - stipend in behalf of,
uh, Richard Python for the great contribution and to quote from some of the
missiles which he has contributed...Today we must all be aware that
protocol takes precedence over procedure. Howewer you say - WHAT THE - what
does this mean... in relation to the tabulation whereby we must once again
realize that the great fiction story is now being rehearsed before our very
eyes, in the Nixon administration... indicating that only an American
writer can receive...the award for fction, unlike Solzinitski whose fiction
doesn't hold water. Comrades - friends, we are gathered here not only to
accept in behalf of one recluse - one who has found that the world in
itself which seems to be a time not of the toad - to quote even Studs
TurKAL. And many people ask "Who are Studs TurKAL?" It's not "Who are Studs
TurKAL?" it's "Who am Studs TurKAL?" This in itself as an edifice of the
great glory that has gone beyond, and the intuitive feeling of the American
people, based on the assumption that the intelligence not only as Mencken
once said, "He who underestimates the American pubic - public, will not go
broke." This is merely a small indication of this vast throng gathered here
to once again behold and to perceive that which has gone behind and to that
which might go forward into the future...we've got to hurdle these
obstacles. This is the main deterrent upon which we have gathered our
strength and all the others who say, "What the hell did that get?" - We
don't know. We've got to peforce withold the loving boy... And as Miller
once said in one of his great novels- what did he ... that language is only
necessary when communication is endangered. And you sit there bewildered,
and Pinter who went further said "It is not the lack of communication but
fear of communication." That's what the Goddamn thing is it's we fear -
communication. Oh - fortunately the prize has only been given to authors -
unlike the Academy Award which is given to a female and a male, indicating
the derision of the human specie - God damn it! But we have no paranoia,
and Mr. Pynchon has attained, and has created for himself serenity, and it
is only the insanity that has kept him alive in his paranoia. We speak of
the organ...of the orgasm...Who the hell wrote this? And the jury has
determined to divide the prize between two writers - to Thomas Pynchon for
his GRAVITY'S RAINBOW. Now GRAVITY'S RAINBOW is a token of this man's
genius...he told me so himself...that he could...in other words, have been
more specific, but rather than to allude the mundane, he has come to the
conclusion that brevity is the importance of our shallow existence. God
damn. Ladies and Gentlemen. To the distinguished panel on the, on the dais
and to the other winners, for poetry and religion and science. The time
will come when religion will outlive its usefulness. Marx, Groucho Marx,
once said that religion is the opiate of the people. I say that when
religion outlives its usefulness, then opium...will be the opiate...Ahh
that's not a bad idea... All right...However, I want to thank Mr.
Guinzburg, Tom Guinzburg of the Viking Press, who has made it possible for
you people to be here this evening to enjoy the Friction Citation - the
Fiction Citation. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW - a small contribution to a certain
degree, since there are over three and a half billion people in the world
today. 218 of them ... million live in the United States which is a very,
very small amount compared to those that are dying elsewhere...Well, I say
that you will be on the road to new horizons, for we who live in a society
where sex is a commodity and a politician can become a TV personality, it's
not easy to conform if you have any morality...I, I, I said that myself
many years ago...But I do want to thank the bureau...I mean the committee,
the organization for the $10,000 they've given out...tonight they made over
$400,000 and I think that I have another appointment. I would like to stay
here, but for the sake of brevity I, I must leave. I do want to thank you,
I want to thank Mr. TurKAL. I want to thank Mr. Knopf who just ran through
the auditorium* and I want to thank Breshnev, Kissinger - acting President
of the Unites States - and also want to thank Truman Capote and thank you. "

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* referring to the streaker who ran nude across the stage.


from:
http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/corey.html



At 1:53 PM -0500 7/30/02, David Morris wrote:
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