Another supposedly fun thing ...

[kelber at mindspring.com]

"'Me, I get through OK,' practicing in front of a stained and cracked mirror in the airplane lavatory, whispering in the jet throb throb and structural creaking, 'just worryin' about you, Frenesi,' standing there miles above the great ocean making these faces at himself."

-----Original Message-----
>From: Louis Goddard <louisgoddard at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 16, 2009 12:05 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Another supposedly fun thing ...
>
>"The place is very lonely -- all overwearied with sun and breeze and
>brine -- very close to nature, as it was Shelley's passion to be."
>
>-- "Italy Revisited" in Portraits of Place, by Henry James.
>
>2009/1/16 Daniel Julius <daniel.julius at gmail.com>:
>> "These things occurred in the eighty-ninth year of the Hegira."
>>
>> - "Et Cetera" in Collected Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
>>> 2. Turn to page 56.
>>> 3. Find the fifth sentence.
>>> 4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal.
>>> 5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most
>>> intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
>>