VL 'Stokely's dog' 49.1

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From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 9:00 pm
Subject: Re: VL 'Stokely's dog' 49.1

   ...It's almost like Pascal's wager in a couple ways:
       1) early Christians faced a situation...


Yea, I guess, but there's always a couple ways of
looking at something. Kinda reminds me of the
time me, Denny Flange and Rocco Squarcione were
down at the dump sharing some muscatel. I was on
the lamb, Denny had just been kicked out of the
womb and Rocco was listening to Vivaldi on an eight
track he had rescued from the pit and somehow
coaxed back to life. The muscatel made it around a
couple of times, when Roco pulled a crumpled card
out oh his overalls and passed it over. It said:

    Rocco Squarcione- Shop Steward

         "Don't scry over spilt milk"

On the back was handwritten, 1-800-CALCITE.

i'm not sure if the muscatel made it over three times
because I dozed off. They were gone when I awoke,
and this annoyed me because I had to wallk back to
town. I figured that maybe I would call management
about it, but quickly realized that would be a waste.

As I was walking back, I became aware that neither
the union nor the bosses would ever do anything
about the rising hill of garbage, except cover it over
with a thin layer of dirt when it reached ground level,
and start a new pit somewhwere else, for as long as
they could get away with it.

That's when I decided to become an independent
contractor.