Repost: "The Big One"

[Joe Allonby]

The first time that I drove across the Utah Canyonlands I boggled. "Holy
Shit! It's a Roadrunner cartoon!"

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 1:30 PM, <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

>              Mark Kohut :
>              As, it seems, the lone contrarian voice,
>              I will risk being wrong again:
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> Plenty of "Contrary" goin'' on 'round here, buddah.
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> Square one: Pynchon is a Satirist, he deals in caricatures,
> "Extremes & in Betweens" to cite Chuck Jones, an obvious role model.
> The man simply can't help himself, he's into the black humor
> of it all as much as anyone else. It's not that man's incapable
> of nuance [obviously], it's that he's so keen on cartoons:
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>              ". . . .May Road Runner cartoons never vanish from
>              the video waves, is my attitude. . . ."
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> . . . .yeah, yeah, I know—way the hell outta context.
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> But:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pje1Ebc5v0
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