Host"s Birthday!!!...re: the Friends plot ideas

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

             Henry Scuffling:
             Robin: Tom Lehrer quote?

"It is a sobering thought, for example, that by the time 
Mozart was my age, he had been dead for three years."

"Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I've got a hobby re-reading 'Lady Chatterley'."

"There are people in this world who do not love 
their fellow man, and I hate people like that!"

And all kidding aside, it's good to remember that Pynchon most definitely 
is a product of the golden age of black comedy---post-apocalyptic Amerika, 
post-war [II, the bomb, the Bomb! dammit], like Lenny Bruce screamin' : 
"We're all gonna die, We're all gonna die. . . ." every twenty or thirty pages
or so in Don DeLillo's "Underworld". Or Ice Nine, or Stewed Tomatos. In 
Pynchon (as in Tom Leher's work), comedy always trumps politics. If there's
an awful pun to be found down there, our boy will dredge it up.