Chasing Pynchon's Rainbows

Daniel Julius daniel.julius at gmail.com
Thu Nov 30 13:40:56 CST 2006


>She smiles. It is just not fair: smart,
>cute and nice.

Looozah!!  What's not fair about this triple threat?  This is like the
fairest thing ever.

>You know it's him because he's wearing a paper bag
>over his head. Coincidence? Perhaps. But I quote Pynchon, who quotes
Wernher
>von Braun: "Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is
>transformation."

What?!  Seriously -- *what*?  First of all, how is this a coincidence?
Second, it is embarrassingly, painfully apparent that ol' Gendy has never
read GR, but opened it to its first page and found a quotation to forcefully
insert into his or her article.  Ouch.
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