post from the past

[Paul Mackin]

 Eric made up a lot of stuff about himself.

P.


Michael Bailey wrote:
> http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9709&msg=20275
> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 22:42:26 +0100
> To: Pynchon-l@[omitted]
> From: Eric Alan Weinstein <E.A.Weinstein@[omitted]>
> Subject: The joy of where I have read MDMD (plus dog urine)
>
> Well, I finished my second reading today on the park bench
> in Cassiobury Park, Watford where I began my first reading
> of "pt 2, America"  some four months ago.
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>  I have read M&D in London, New York, Edinburgh,
> the Highlands, State College Pennslyvania, Oxford and
> Princeton, NJ.
> I have read it on trains, in airplanes, in bed, and while my car
> was being valet-ed at Dick Tracey Car Wash, M1 entrance, Staple's
> Corner.
>
> Very often I have read it .at shopping malls esp.
> the Staten Island Mall, the Harliquin Centre Watford and most of all
> at Ponte's Lavazza in Brent Cross Mall (in a seat overhanging the bit
> with Talbots, Laura Ashley and the Museum Store.) Also the Japanese
> Mall at Yoohan Plaza, in the food court, often with steaming good Ramen
> nearby, or maybe just a cup of miso.
>
>  I've read M&D sitting in in Hyde Park (inside the backwards
> tree), in  Central Park ( during a happy Dominican bar-b-q), and
> in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia with an old friend from
> that place, after going to Boarders.   I read it in the waiting-room
> at Euro-Lille, traveling back from Paris, and thought of
> my man Rem Koolhaus, his copy sitting in Rotterdam, full,
> I'm sure, of notes and scribbles.
>
> I have read M&D in my
> old office at Senate House (surrounded by DEIC and BEIC papers),
> and my new office in Sommerset House
> (surrounded by several new computers and suffused with glorious light
> and even air. It is  overlooks the river.  Nearby-- the soon to be infamous
> floatin', rockin' ship o' Pynheads El Barco Latino, taco's £1, Beer £1.50.)
>
> Mostly, as is becoming obvious to you all,
>  I've read M&D at many resturants and cafe's, often after midnight
> but sometimes over late  brunch, almost  always happily.
> Mason Bertaux, Bar Italia, Cafe Lanterna, Cafe Reggio,
> The Victory Diner and the Potter's Bar/Hatfeild M25 motorway
> services--thank you all very much.
>
> I have given away more than a dozen free copies. The American edition,
> save one extra mistake on p 764, being both more expensive by about $.27/£.17,
> and much better produced--better paper, nicer cover, plus dust jacket
> and properly sewn binding. These gifts have been one of the great pleasures
> of my life, giving to people who will read and enjoy. Thank you, Holt.
> Cape, stop cutting corners with Britain's books.
>
>
> I wish only to add that as I was about to finish this afternoon---
> on p 769 to be exact, Mason's truly awful and terrifing vison of Beings
> from "the new planet"---
>  a dog who had been playing with two other doggie friends in the nearby
> River Lea came up to me, and as I was deeply engrossed in the hideous
> forms of Charles Mason's dying mind, lifted his leg and pissed all over me.
>
> I washed and changed, returned to the bench, and finished the book fifteen
> minutes later. Then I tossed the book in the air, a la Mary Tyler Moore,
> as high as I could, and caught it, and went home.
>
> Thank you, TRP, where ever you are tonight, well done, well done.
> A whole chunk of my life spent engrossed in yours silks without limit,
> your "savage flowers of the Indies,
> demurer Blooms of the British garden, stripes and tartans, foreign
> colours undreamed in Newton's prismatics, damasks with epic-length
> Oriental tales woven into them, requireing hours of attentive gazing
> whilst the light at the window went changing so as to reveal newer
> and deeper labrinths of event, Velvets whose grasp of incident light
> was so predatory and absolute that one moved closer to compensate
> for what was not being reflected, till it felt like being drawn, oneself,
> inside the unthinkable contours of an invisable surface."
> Eric Alan Weinstein
> University of London
> E.A.Weinstein@[omitted]
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