Pynchonian refraction # ???: NYTimes.com: Lesley Blanch, 102, a Writer, Traveler and Adventure-Seeker, Dies

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I enjoyed her book, The Wilder Shores of Love.

Laura

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>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

>   
>  This woman, one of whose books I know, is the kind of female adventurer that TRP pays
>  a kind of homage to, esp in ATD, I think. Agree? Yashmeen, different but the same? Agree?
>   
>  But, the major reason I have sent this to all is her two sentences at the end of this obit.
>  She travelled toward color, she said. THAT IS A PYNCHON VISION OF GOOD PLACES, NO? 
>  And, that she hated 'progress'; except for anaethesia...Chekhov, a good doctor, said something similar about anaesthesia and we know where TRP stands on certain kinds of 
>  "modern progress'. I think preterite might apply to Ms. Lesley Blanch, RIP.
>