More Misc. Pynchon references

[Mark Kohut]

Ms. Mildrid Kalish has had a surprise publishing success with a memoir
of her life, her family and ancestors in Iowa in the 20th Century.
The book is called "Little Heathens". (She has an op-ed in today's NYTimes
about the Iowa caucuses, fyi)

In it she recounts a bad unforgettable memory. A gaily-colored--very Pynchonian, I say--
house bird escaped its cage and inadvertantly landed on a hot, burning stove....
Fatally hurt, it was immediately put out of its misery......

Ms. Kalish, who became an English teacher, said that the line "a screaming came
across the sky" when she read it, was embodied for her in the poor bird's screaming....

Great writers pervade everything, I say unnecessarily.


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