Re: Disappointed—Plenty of Spoilers

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No, you don't stand corrected (or didn't before now). You asked a question; 
you did not make a declarative statement. So, you could not stand corrected 
on that issue. Am I now correcting you? Does it matter? No, because your 
posts are always first rate, with the occasional trip into first-rate 
humour.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Livingston" <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: "Page" <page at quesnelbc.com>
Cc: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>; "pynchon -l" 
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: Disappointed—Plenty of Spoilers


> Certainly have never seen a pig do a backstroke.

Well, no, but my step-sister was married to a pig in California who
managed a pretty flounder impersonation.  I guess "wallow" and
"flounder" stand pretty close as regards connotation, where swimming
does imply an element of grace.  Therefore, I stand corrected.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Page<page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
> 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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