Fw: most beautiful novel opening

[Mark Kohut]

YES....that and the opening of Gravity's Rainbow are my two favorites......


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From: Zak Nissenbaum <jzn at coversports.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:57:59 AM
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"If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."


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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: most beautiful novel opening


>          OEDIPA STOOD IN THE
>          living room, stared at by 
>          the greenish dead eye of 
>          the TV tube, spoke the 
>          name of God, tried to feel 
>          as drunk as possible.
> 
>          But this did not work.
> 
>          Mark Kohut:
>          I'm up for rereading COL49.
> 
> Hell, I do that in my sleep. All I gotta say is swap George for Pierce
> and we'll be rolling down the highway in a ALL-NEW all-white Ford 
> Comet in no time, slithering past the "Ok!" and NADA signs, shakin' 
> to the the Paranoid's latest---"Hallways and Staircases"---while crusin' 
> into the Echo Courts nice and slow and slippin' on an extra dress [no 
> point in wearing just a dress, is there?] or two once we get there. And 
> just wait till you check out that stamp collection! Now say 'Rich 
> Chocolaty Goodness' real smooth-like, like Ken Nordine on Romilar 
> eating a u-47 that's getting compressed by a Pultec.
> 
>          "YOU KNOW WHAT A MIRACLE IS?"
>          "RICH CHOCOLATY GOODNESS!"
>


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