what would [pynchon] drive?

[joeallonby]

on 7/13/03 12:33 AM, barbara100 at jps.net at barbara100 at jps.net wrote:

> That Pynchon thinks of everything! And you, my friend, never forget a thing.
> Bravo!
> But your car must've been in the garage that time I came over. What is it?
> And what on earth is an International 4700? It sounds big! I hope you're a
> contractor or something, Joe. A fellow needs an excuse to drive something so
> big.
> But MiniCoopers are *sweet*!  I see you're well balanced, at least :~)
> 
It's a big ass truck.  I have an excuse. You try putting a Steinway in a
MiniCooper!
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "pynchonoid" <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: what would [pynchon] drive?
> 
> 
>> [...] the most god-awful of trade-ins: motorized metal
>> extensions of themselves, of their families and what
>> their whole lives must be like, out there so naked for
>> anybody, a stranger like himself, to look at, frame
>> cockeyed, rusty underneath, fender repainted in ashade
>> just off enough to depress the value [...] inside
>> smelling hopelessly of children, supermrket booze,
>> two, sometimes three generations of cigarette smokers,
>> o only of dust [...]
>> -COL49
>> 
>> [...] some gray primercoated outlaw's dream of a
>> Trans-Am [...]
>> -Barthelme Introduction
>> 
>> Vroom!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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