doorstoppers

[Michael Bailey]

In Soviet Russia, your bills pay you...
(uh, sorry, thought this was Slashdot for a minute)

On 11/26/08, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I bet people in Russia don't pay their bills.
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> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Robin Landseadel <
> robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> " Look at 'em, ordinary fucking people, I hate 'em. "
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>>  On Nov 21, 2008, at 1:42 AM, Rich Clavey wrote:
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>>    Hey wasnt that the car in Repo Man?
>> z.
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>> --- On *Thu, 11/20/08, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>*wrote:
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>> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>> Subject: Re: doorstoppers
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 9:14 PM
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>>  On Nov 20, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
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>> If Stephenson is a monster truck, Pynchon is an exquisite early
>> Corvette o-or maybe a Lotus, Kerouac a 57 Chevy, Gibson a Maybank,
>> Gaddis a Duesenberg, Delillo a white van filled with surveillance
>> equipment, Grace Paley your friend's VW microbus, JM Coetzee a Hearse
>> Phaeton (at least in MoP), Joyce Carol Oates a Crown Vic, Doris
>> Lessing a Wolseley Wasp...
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>> then Barth is a Studebaker, class like you can't find anymore.
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>> Philip K. Dick is a 1964 Chevrolet Malibu<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Chevelle>
>>  from New Mexico <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico> with
>> something terribly weird in the trunk.
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