Bartlett's Familiar Pynchon

Ian Livingston igrlivingston at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 20:05:58 CDT 2009


"Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or
publicizing it: keep cool but care," McClintic Sphere in V.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:45 PM, alice
wellintown<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Go down, you bastard." V..  Profane to his erect penis.
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:19 PM, David Kipen <kipend at arts.gov> wrote:
>>
>> Please forgive a distractingly non-IV question, but if you could each put
>> one Pynchon quotation into the next edition of Bartlett's Familiar, which
>> would it be? The one in there now from Gravity's Rainbow about the war being
>> so absentee is great and all, but I'll bet there's even better where that
>> came from...
>>
>>
>> All finest,
>>
>> David
>>
>> "All politicians are amateurs. It's as if we'd handed over the studio to
>> the Publicity Department."
>> -- Christopher Isherwood, Prater Violet
>>
>
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