a poor young man emotionally lost in Missoula...heading to South Dakota to get it together...reads Pynchon

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Looks like Holden made it out of the bin.

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> A--and, he wants invisibility and time travel!  (How does this stuff
> happen? Think he has
> read AtD or is this more depth Pynchon knows beyond all understanding?
>
> Note: forwarded message attached.
>
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 21:34:17 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Fwd: a poor young man emotionally lost in Missoula...heading to
> South Dakota to get it together...reads Pynchon
>
>
> Note: forwarded message attached.
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> To: "Christopher Kerr" <christopherker at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 00:31:35 -0400
> Subject: a poor young man emotionally lost in Missoula...heading to South
> Dakota to get it together...reads Pynchon
> thomas pynchon frakked my brain
> It's been a while. I'm a bad blogger. Wish I could say I'd written a
> symphony or something comparable when I wasn't blogging, but the only
> accomplishment I'm even vaguely proud of is having finished Gravity's
> Rainbow minus killing myself afterwards.
>
> Actually, I tried to blog a while back, from the Hastings Hardback
> Cafe here in Missoula. Their internet kept failing and I never got off
> the ground. Meanwhile, I have no internet at home still. Qwest
> Highspeed kept adding phantom charges to my bill, and is apparently
> beyond reproach for whatever it asks of its customers. Considering
> that my most recent employment was at Baskin Robbins--a pittance that
> scarcely paid for modest living expenses, let alone rent in a college
> town--I haven't been able to afford phantom charges, or real ones.
> Actually, I'm moving back to South Dakota soon, perhaps only for the
> summer, in order to save up some money doing something or other.
>
> Dunno how to succinctly say how miserable it's been in this hellpit.
> I'm thinking of questing for time travel only to stop myself from ever
> having come here and letting myself get so depressed that I couldn't
> improve the situation. For stupid reasons having to do with emotional
> immaturity and severe social anxiety, I won't be graduating yet. Not
> that having/not having a degree in English will matter much to my
> immediate future, but I'm fairly devastated.
>
> Aside from powers of time travel, I'd settle for invisibility. It
> seems most true that all evil springs from being seen and noticed by
> others.
>
>
>
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