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[the Robot Vegetable]

Ships have 3 masts?  What's the definition in this sailless age?


On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Peter E. Zelz wrote:

> CFO of a private high school.  In a previous life, I did electronic
> intelligence work in the Navy.  Rode a lot of ships and boats (Navy people
> will know the difference).  Getting ready for a submarine trip always
> involved procuring lots of stuff to read; generally the thicker, the
> better.  Stumbled across a copy of GR in the Stars & Stripes bookstore in
> Naples, Italy.  At that point, I'd never heard of Pynchon.  It was thick
> enough to make the grade, and the jacket blurb made it sound suitably
> distracting.  Been crazy about our Pynch ever since.
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