VLVL2 (3) A Finesi Romance #1

[pynchonoid]

Link it to Dewey or Melville and you'll have T eating
out of your hand, Gumbo.


--- gumbo at fuse.net wrote:
> Terrance:
> 
> > Well, how about trying to persuade me cause I
> don't see it.
> 
> I don't think that will be possible.
> 
> It's true there's no reference in the text to the
> movie (or the song, which actually predated the
> movie by 40 years) other than the distinctive
> construction "the fatal [noun]," and the apparent
> (to me) allusion to the idea that there's a decisive
> moment when one first sets out on the road to
> perdition. That's more textual support than I could
> find for the notion that this is not Hector's first
> visit to the house.  
> 
> The "fatal five-spot" as the "fatal glass of beer"
> fits the way I read the scene. Doesn't fit the way
> you read it.  
> 
> D.C. 
> 


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