More Misc. Pynchon references

[rich]

when I hear that line i think of what one survivor said she thought of
when she saw the sunrise every morning--the screams of those burning
to death in the warsaw ghetto

rich

On Jan 3, 2008 12:05 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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