VL--IV Wayvone

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 08:14:13 CST 2009


 Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:
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>
> Imagine your mouth gets swollen (by dental anesthesia,
> or, the mob, etc.) and you try to say "payphone".
>
> Sorry,
> Heikki
>

no,no, that seems perfectly, perfectly okay, given the Pynchon
payphone incident...

and fu'thermore, hmm, then by implication, the Wayvone Family is
linked with the instrument usually neglected by Superman while doing
his transformation, with exciting possibilities for Nietszchean
interpretation, as well as tying in to the "snitch" theme (as "drop a
dime")

also, "wave own"-ership, as surfers (I read in Rolling Stone once)
refer to sharks as "the landlord"
-- and the battles in AtD Iceland Spar chapter over wave(length) ownership...

I was surprised to hear on the 70s sitcom "One Day at a Time" the soup
Bonnie Franklin's character made pronounced without the long final
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Ahh.... but I'm rambling. ( I tend to do this... must be all that LSD
I ate. ; ) )...



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