Editing Pynchon?

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 10:50:23 CDT 2009


Bravo!

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:13 AM, alice
wellintown<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> It must be a difficult task,
> sit down with a genius and ask,
> "Are you sure?"
> And, while turning another page, as he looks out the window,
> "Is this what you meant to say?"
>  And, demure, never certain,
> as he closes the curtain and turns from who might have been watching,
> or who might not have been there for sure,
> and screams across your eyes as he walks out the door,
> the words on the page you have turned to, exactly.
> It must be a tad terrible to stand there with a genius and say,
> "Against the Day?"
> And, "Um, Is that title chistled in stone?"
> And wait for the crying  of ....
>




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