re correspondence with Playboy Japan

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on 2/19/03 5:53 AM, P. Chevalier at Pierre.Chevalier at infm.ucl.ac.be wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 
It's a running gag from Gravity's Rainbow. Do you do the Kenosha Kid? Do you
do the Kenosha, Kid? It all depends on the placement of the comma, the
inflection of the spoken sentence,  and whether or not the addressee is
called Kid, the Kenosha Kid, or another person all together. Is the Kenosha
Kid one of the people that you do? Hey Kid, do you dance the Kenosha? Wanna
snort some Kenosha? It's a little light-hearted language fun.

Peace
Joe