pynchon-l-digest V2 #3744, reaction by non-TP fans

[J. Stuart]

>But the issue  I really want to raise is: what do all of you think the
>vast majority of Simspons viewers thought of the scene?  Did they think
>the "unknown comic" suddenly became an author.  Did they just let it wash
>over them as one of those indecipherably bizarre moments that are
>sometimes injected into a Simpsons episode?

My wife, who has a different "yuck" expression for every book I own, looked
at me after his cameo and asked, "So, was that funny?"  Biologists.  Sheesh.

Then again, the only time I've seen her laugh at a Simpsons episode was "I
call him GAMBLOR" etc.  Comedy just doesn't take with her, sometimes.

The two other people I asked after had no idea, found it confusing.  My mom
told me if he wrote a book I like I could get it for my birthday.  "I love
that Tom Clancy," she added.  So 4 votes for "undecipherably bizarre."  I
actually found the episode better than most recent ones - "twisty lard
strips," ha ha.

Jason