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[Joe Allonby]

>
> >
> >   masochismo!
> > i decided to read the crying of lot 49 by thomas pynchon, mostly because
> i
> > always supected that he belongs to that generation of self-obsessed,
> > mid-century, american, male authors that i love to hate*, who are in
> equal parts
> > consumed with their own brilliance and the inalienable rightness of said
> > brilliance. oh, and fearing and resenting women and people of colour,
> too.
> >
> > anyway, of this ilk having only read tom robbins (fantastic when i was an
> > idiotic seventeen year-old hippie and abhorrent later), jack kerouac
> (ditto,
> > though less so the latter), and ernest hemingway (author of the old man
> and the
> > sea, a book i threw across the room in disgust no less than three times),
> i was
> > hoping to be proven wrong with pynchon. i am sorry to report that i hated
> it,
> > also.
> >
> > i think i need to go get drunk and dance to madonna.
> >
>

   I was dressed like David Bowie,
   I was dancing with Madonna,
   I could leave at any second,
   But I didn't even wanna,
   I dreamed I was a trendy shitbag in a discotheque.


--------Country Dick Montana
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