IV Scene Upstate

[Joe Allonby]

Reminds me of my friend Alexwho wore a pink and green Lily Pulitzer
sun dress to a Sex Pistols concert so that I could find her easily in
the crowd. It worked.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Elaine Bell<elainemmbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I decided to go get my Barnes&Noble copy of IV after noon yesterday,
> hoping to catch the Pynchon fanatica gathering round the Starbucks fires
> during their lunch hours.  Also, concerned for my safety should the crush
> get too rough, I suited up for battle: Jimmy Choo stilettos, LBD, shades, a
> parasol and my copy of ATD for a shield or cudgel as necessary. On arrival,
> there it was:  DIRECTLY in front of the entrance doors in all of its green
> and magenta glory, smackdabcenter of a table bannered:  SUMMER READING!
> What hardy reader could have ever envisioned such a Pynchon placement.
> (Yeh, right there with the latest Charlene Harris, Dead Until Dawn and a
> cute little mini-beach-chair that could hold your book cleverly in place
> while your hands remained free to coppertone yourself and sip at your banana
> colada.)  I strode purposefully forward and spoke to a B&N associate who was
> busy moving undershelf IVs to the premier topshelf spot.  "How is it
> selling?" I asked her.  "Has there been a big rush?"  She looked at me with
> a mixture of, I think, pity and sympathy, the way one gazes upon slightly
> deranged people.  "Well, I guess it's doing fine.  Another person bought one
> earlier today."  "Is that person still in the store?" I eagerly queried,
> hoping to meet a live Pynchonoid without having to travel to NYC or Boston.
> "Oh I don't think so; it was hours ago."  I lingered by the display,
> thinking I might yet catch a Pynchonoid in the wild, but no such luck.  I
> did, however, witness three different teenaged girls (one Goth, one punk,
> one preppy) each grab her copy of Dead Until Dawn.
>
> On 8/4/09, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> So.
>> I go to Bookshop Santa Cruz today (8/3) and lo and behold I find Imperial
>> by W.T.Vollman on the shelf (and I thought it was supposed to be out a few
>> days after IV) and so I have to buy it cause I rilly like Bill and so I ask
>> them at BSC will you sell me Pynchons latest today and of course they say no
>> we cant do that....sigh....
>> So now I have Imperial which looks really good and I know I cant read it
>> for a long time cause Im gonna have to read IV twice and and...shit....
>> Life is good.....
>> Z.
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