VLVL2(4)(tt) Smurfs

[Dave Monroe]

And cf. here ...

"Except maybe for Brainy Smurf, it's hard to imagine
anybody these days wanting to be called a literary
intellectual, though it doesn't sound so bad if you
broaden the labeling to, say, 'people who read and
think.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.html

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/luddite.html

And see as well ...

http://www.smurf.com/

http://www.80schildren.com/television/smurfs.htm

And, while I'm at it, torn from today's headlines ...

"Living out of Your Car is a Dying Art"
  
By Howard "Howie" Dassle 
 
In the past 20 years, I've lived in nine different
homes and 14 different cities. No, I'm not some fancy
millionaire who jets around from place to place. I
don't even own a suit for funerals. Rather, I'm one of
a dying breed. I live out of my car, and I do it with
pride. 

Hell, there used to be legions of vehicle-dwellers
like me, criss-crossing the country with no one
telling us what to do, spending our nights parked next
to a row of Dumpsters behind the Kmart. I still
encounter people living in their Buicks, but how many
of them take the time to do it with dignity anymore?

[...]

http://www.theonion.com/current_opinion1.html

--- "Vincent A. Maeder" <vmaeder at cycn-phx.com> wrote:
> Fair enough. "Well good timing, 'cause it looks like
> there is no house, this little Smurfmobile here's
> it."  (VL, Ch. 4, P. 53)  Of course, there are
> references to Smurfmobile in the literature....

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