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joeallonby
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Thu Sep 23 18:16:32 CDT 2004
on 9/23/04 9:07 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski at hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi wrote:
>
>
> Now, I do respect Bekah's POW.
>
> But then again, I have met numerous females who love GR. They
> have worked in the Pyndustrial subbranches of the academy, or
> have formerly contributed to the p-list (like the great Chris
> K), or done both (like the great Dana M who once said that GR
> "is the best damn novel in the world").
>
> As to so called lay readers of GR, it is almost impossible to
> bump into one here in Finland as the doorstopper has not been
> translated into Finnish. (But "Rayuela" is just coming out in
> Finnish... can't wait.) But I believe you when you say that a
> great majority of so called lay readers of GR in USA are male.
>
> But I think it is still another thing why the steady drinkers
> in this joint called pynchon-l tend to belong to the male sex
> too.
>
>
> Heikki
>
> P.S. BTW, am listening to Johnny Cash's "American IV: The Man
> Comes Around" as I write this. A-w-e-s-o-m-e.
>
It is an awesome final statement. "Hurt" sounds like it was written for him
to sing to June.
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