In the long run

[David Morris]

On 5/4/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at bms.com> wrote:
> Jessa Crispin, Monday at her Blog of a Booklsut:
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> "I never really understood marathon runners. All that chafing and pain and bleeding from places that should not be bleeding... A friend reported once she spent the last two miles afraid to look down because she was pretty sure that her kneecap had moved to the back of her knee. Nothing anybody has ever said about running a marathon makes me want to sign up.
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> "I also do not understand those who are going to read the latest Thomas Pynchon just because... well, because it's there. And they're going to keep logs about the experience, as if it were an endurance test, although evidently it is. The Prospect is the latest to join in the fun (just read the headline: "battling his way through" -- what is wrong with you people?).  Although there is no chafing and inappropriate bleeding yet, I'm sure there will be by the end."
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> <sigh>
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> If anyone can identify the sinister agency forcing poor Jessa to run marathons *or* read AtD, I'll be the first to cry "stop!"

The sinister force is a manifestation of her inferiority complex,
which she would like to turns the tables on by calling marathon
runners and Pynchon readers masochists.

David Morris