re correspondence with Playboy Japan

[prozak at anus.com]

> > What exactly is this "Kenosha Kid" stuff?
> > I guess this is my poor English that prevented me from extracting the juice 
> > of what has been many times described to me as a typical blend of 
> > Pynchonesque sense of humor... So can anyone around help me decrypting that?
> > 
> I don't think the mere fact of being a native English speaker helps much
> in figuring out what "kenosha kid" ultimately stands for. No one has
> done very well on that score. However the most extended kk interlude,
> starting on p.60, very much depends upon being able to appreciate the
> considerable number of meanings the combining of the phrases "the
> kenosha kid" and "you never did" can convey--using different
> punctuations marks and such. For example: 
> 
> You! never did the Kenosha kid for one minute think . . . 
> 
> You? Never! Did the Kenosha Kid think for one moment that . . . 
> 
> Perhaps in the interest of cultural inclusiveness you could suggest how
> similar word play might work in French. Don't know if I would "get it"
> of course.

In all honesty, I blame pot. That sort of thing is fascinating when 
you're baked like airline "food" ham.

Kenosha was where some Clovis points were found, right?

Didn't Kenosha, WI (?!??) show up in Burroughs somewhere, murkily 
buried in that deep stoney text of his?

I mean - to analyze American literature after ~1950 is to in part, 
study the effects of pot, jazz, coffee and cigarettes on the 
(alienated) human nervous cortex.

And thus a reflection of that consciousness itself, deconstructing?

Here come the missiles / no thought left on earth.


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