Re: Disappointed—Plenty of Spoilers

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Pigs (not including Bodine) would wallow rather than swim. As you no doubt 
know, pigs don't sweat. So, in order to stay cool, they need water 
(actually, it is usually muck) to hang in.

Certainly have never seen a pig do a backstroke.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Livingston" <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>; "pynchon -l" 
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Disappointed—Plenty of Spoilers


> Would that pig be swimming?
>
> I am in full agreement, and add the item that, indeed, the title does
> hark back to Ben Frank's armonium in M&D and Lloyd's of London being
> unable to insure it as cargo on it's voyage from England to America
> because of "the inherent vice of glass."  Could this be a clue to the
> next deeper layer?  Of, maybe, the fragile cargo of self our carcasses
> transport?  The scene of Doc's bilocation figures into my
> contemplation of this thread....
>
> Man I wish I had time for another reading now!
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Robin
> Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I'm on my third reading. I know, I know—fanboy rampant, Mr. Overdo.
>>
>> The moment I saw "Under the paving-stones, the beach!" I was in love.
>>
>> This is like one of those bound collections of medical transparencies, 
>> where
>> there are layers and then there are layers under the layers, the beach 
>> under
>> all those paving stones. There is the "Nick Danger, Third Eye" layer. 
>> There
>> is the "what I was smoking and where I was smoking it while I was writing
>> you-know-what" layer. There's the "CIA activities right in my fucking
>> backyard, fer christsakes" level, there's the "scryers I used to know and
>> other freaks I've known & loved" layer, there's an overabundance of CIA
>> citations and references and then there's the Bonzo Dog Band like a 
>> cherry
>> on top, God bless 'em.
>>
>> So I'm happier than a pig in shit.
>>
>
>


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