Bartlett's Familiar Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

Well, since no one else has, i must suggest the first two sentences
from Gravity's Rainbow. Always true, I'm afraid, and in the authorial 
voice....which is not true of many of TRPs best 'quotes'....




--- On Thu, 8/6/09, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Bartlett's Familiar Pynchon
> To: against.the.dave at gmail.com, joeallonby at gmail.com
> Cc: kipend at arts.gov, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 10:17 AM
> 
> 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.
> . . ."
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> > 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
> >
> > http://www.facebook.com/FlavorDav
> 
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