Pynchon mention

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

> <<Rinse your mind out with a little O'Henry......If it
> is years since you last looked, I expect that you will
> be quite impressed>>

MalignD:
> It has been years and if impressed, I'll be, as well,
> surprised.

I know I was a few months ago.......One recalls reading Red Chief, 
Magi, and perhaps another in one's youth - what I had completely 
forgotten, or never noticed, is how engaging his prose style is....

> <<Ambrose Bierce, in small doses, is also a treat...>>
> 
> I had an affection for Bierce in college, The Devil's
> Dictionary, plus his status with Judge Crater as
> famous missing person.  I agree about small doses.

Don't go anywhere NEAR biographical detail...in his case it is so 
dismaying....

> By the way, Carlos Fuentes's book, The Old Gringo,
> about Bierce, is a most tedious short novel.

Thanks for the heads up........Fuentes however, may be as  good a 
source as anyone else for the "final days of AB"......

love,
cfa 
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