a quick question

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
Lot's of weight-control dietary advice in Pynchon, actually. See in
particular the "loathsom bloated loach" fish dinner in GR. You'll find
more in V ---- "the tails, when boiled, are most succulent---"

Sondheim's Sweeny Todd has some even better dietary advice, up to and
including "picking bones and rotten spuds out of alley ash-cans."

yum yum
Mark

--- Peter Petto <ppetto at apk.net> wrote:
> I hoped the collective mind here might help me ponder a quick
> question.
> 
> I'm in a book club, and have been justifiably accused although in an 
> unjustifiably exaggerated way of relating every book we've ever read
> to 
> something in Pynchon.
> 
> I'm worried that, to thwart this tendency of mine, that the next book
> will 
> be Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution. Now while I wouldn't have any
> problems 
> with references to revolution, here's my question (actually posed to
> me by 
> our next "picker"):
> 
> >You've found answers/references to nearly everything in Pynchon. How
> about 
> >weight loss diets?
> 
> I'd appreciate any & all help & advice.
> 
> 
> |===|
> 
> Peter Petto <ppetto at apk.net>
> Bay Village, OH 
> 
> 


	
		
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