Bartlett's Familiar Pynchon

[Carvill John]

Heh.


Ok well if we're going off-Pynchon, I'll go for:


"Human language is the cracked pot on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the while we long to move the stars to pity" - Gustave Flaubert


Pynchon-wise, I was gonna suggest the 'living inside the system is like driving across country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide' - that may be slightly off, but you know the one? If that's too obvious, and we're not allowed to nominate whole swathes of text, then sticking to one sentence I think I'll nominate:


"But he "sees" it in
the way you would walking into your bedroom to be jumped
on, out of a bit of penumbra on your ceiling, by a gigantic moray eel,
its teeth in full imbecile death-smile, breathing, in its fall onto your open
face, a long human sound that you know, horribly, to be a sexual sigh.
. . ."


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> From: against.the.dave at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 08:56:42 -0500
> Subject: Re: Bartlett's Familiar Pynchon
> To: joeallonby at gmail.com
> CC: kipend at arts.gov; pynchon-l at waste.org
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Joe Allonby wrote:
>
>> Obviously "If they get you asking the wrong questions."
>
> I second that e-motion. "Keep cool, but care" has already been
> mentione as well. I'd still go with "questions/answers." but a
> personal favorite ...
>
> "This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl."
> --The Crying of Lot 49
>
> But I'd STILL go with "If they can get you asking the wrong questions,
> they don't have to worry about the answers."
>
> Other favorites, other sources:
>
> "Let us endeavor to see things as they are, and then enquire whether
> we ought to complain." --Samuel Johnson
>
> "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail
> better." --Samuel Beckett
>
> "Trying is the first step towards failure." --Homer J. Simpson
>
> "And Proteus brought the upright beast into the garden and chained him
> to a tree, and the children did make sport of him." --The Lawgiver,
> Scroll XIII
>
> "You maniacs! You blew it all up! Goddam you all. Goddam you all to
> hell." --George Taylor
>
> "Sexually provocative humor wasn't on teevee, it was on cocktail
> napkins, and we liked it that way! " --Joel Hodgson
>
> "Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad." --Spock
>
> "Yeah, but you are aware that there is an invention called television,
> and on this invention, they show shows, right?" --Jules Winnfield
>
> "I shot a werewolf once, but when I got to it, it had already changed
> back into my neighbor's dog." --Dwight Schrute
>
> "I don't have kids, I probably never will have kids, but if i did have
> kids, I'd have black kids, and I'd take them to see Good Burger."
> --Chip, after Rex Reed
>
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