The southerly wind

mikebailey at speakeasy.net mikebailey at speakeasy.net
Tue Jan 30 03:16:27 CST 2007


Glenn Scheper wrote:
I am a recovered schizophrenia. Misprision is a life sentence.

--------- all joking aside, I had that malady too. My wife still suffers from it. It's a harsh mistress. 
I keep meaning to read Deleuze and Guattari about that...

I felt bad that Mike followed my weedy lead with such effort.
Upon reading the sentences in the book, they seem innocuous.
I should turn the gain down on my looking for something odd.

-----I liked what I found. I think the twinned extra-grammatical applications of phrases to the verbs enhance the meaning 
and the feel of the passage. I'm afraid I didn't convey very well the bliss I got, and I'm not sure it's what you (or Pynchon) 
were/was driving at there. Wish I could explain it better - hence my disclaimer to disarm any "oh he's got
Iceland spar on the brain and sees double images everywhere" 


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