Been Down So Long...

[Steve Maas]

Currently reading _Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me_ by Richard 
Farina. The book is enjoyable, though it does read like a young man wrote 
it.  I was struck by the following.

Steve Maas

Thomas Pynchon, excerpts from Introduction to BDSLILLUTM:
"When I first read the book, I was comparing it with my own experience of 
the same place, time, and people. [...] It was also great fun recognizing 
the real-life counterparts of the other characters, being tickled by what 
he'd done with and to them. [...] There isn't much point Naming Names 
here--they know who they all are and they walk among us even today."

Richard Farina, from BDSLILLUTM:
"Heffalump's mouth still hanging open between giggles, huge teeth jutting 
forward like a beaver's."


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