theme and grand scheme
John Doe
tristero69 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 9 12:43:32 CDT 2005
LOL! I just LOVE the "Rocket Limericks" of GR! LOL!
They crack me up just thinking about 'em!
--- Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> At 1:32 AM -0700 10/8/05, Cometman wrote:
> > >new readers of
> >>Pynchon seem to pick Vineland off the shelf and
> read
> >>that novel FIRST ( mebbe cuz like, it has, like, a
> >>TOtally crunchy-granola kinda resonance and
> >>connotations of like Greenpeace, redwood forests
> and
> >>save the whales, dude! )..and so they get their
> first
> >>exposure to his writing from arguably his weakest
> >>novel...so those who don't probably don't get past
> the
> >>Pirate Prentice Banana breakfast scene....so yeah
> you
> > >have brought up some very good contingencies
> here...
>
>
> Well, weakest writing or not, that's how I came to
> Pynchon and it
> didn't seem to hurt me. (although some say...)
>
> In other news, my favorite Pynchon song (should
> that be a thread?)
> is always and forever "Wacky Coconuts." Too bad
> there's no music
> award suitable to the talent. I mean, if Dylan
> wins the Nobel,
> can't Pynchon win the country music award or
> something - anything?
> (g)
>
> Bekah
>
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