GRGR Meta: Love is Strange

[Cometman]

> 
> apotemnophilia
> In defense of the English department, pomo was probably actually a
> good thing

http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/barth/faq.cfm
about 1/2 way down, definition of postmodernism,
dam' fine way to tell a story, of course there's always room for
improvement (and Jello (TM))

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just ordered a Roky Erickson t-shirt
http://www.amplifierstores.com/rokyerickson.html
oboy oboy!

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"Late in Tristram Shandy, Sterne's hero, like Pynchon's, tries to
pattern his life in a series of lines, to recreate his linear
history....Tristram considers the straight line, the "right line," the
"best line," the weighty line, but resists following it: "by what
mistake - who told them so - or how it has come to pass, that your men
of wit and genius have all along confounded this line, with the line of
GRAVITATION?" (Vol. 6, Ch. 40)." 
- Michael Seidel, "The Satiric Plots of Gravity's Rainbow"
p. 200 in _Pynchon 
A Collection of Critical Essays_ ed. Edward Mendelson
1978, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632

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"I don't know. Jesus." Viking, p23, ln 24
"Jesus," teeth chattering, "you're such a comfort." p 23, ln 41.

ecumenically speaking, Jesus represents (is) the Good Thing.
"Straight line exists between me and the good thing" 
Talking Heads, "The Good Thing"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Songs_About_Buildings_and_Food

Reminiscent of those chimneys, fawning toward the sun.  

Yet the straight line is subject to gravity (and also, to levity: isn't
Portnoy's Complaint in toto a straight line for the analyst: "so, now
we can start?" (or words to that effect))