did you say he's out selling phiz on a sunday?

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Thu Jan 16 13:49:51 CST 2003


On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 13:34, Lucky Pierre wrote:
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> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Oh, might as well--show we're paying attention.
> > 
> > Cesare Lombroso
> 
> Sitting in the front polishing apples again, Paul? 

Good boys do finally always read the assignment
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> Frenesi does not abort Prairie. When BV finds out she
> has "reproduced" he goes after the child. Why? He
> notices Zoyd in the way and decides to remove him.
> He's motivated, at least part of him is motivated, by
> his "nightmares of forced procreation." 

He understood, in some way impossible to face, that each child he thus
produced, each birth, would only be another death for him.

Or else he doesn't like stretch marks. (or mammilary blemishes as
Nabokov once put it)


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> Try Lucky Pierre,  Paul, bet you will love it. 
> A Dying Animal is great. Fans of GR will have echoes
> bouncing in the folds of their brains. 

Yes.
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> Now if you dig "nympet"  stuff (although I'd prefer to
> avoid the professor falls in love with student affair)
> try JC Oat's last too. 

Nobody does nymphets like Nab.
> 
> Say,  the Stones can still Rock, why can't these old
> authors? They do! 

They say all they know too early.
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>  I'm trying to be an honest critic of young Tommy P.,
> but I still think V. is a remarkable  accomplishment
> for a smart-mouthed kid. 

That P was a smart assed, mouthed kid was only his opinion on a
particular day in a particular circumstance. Not a reliable judgment
Tomorrow his self-assessment may be different but probably no better.
Writers are like that. They are the last to know.
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