Another supposedly fun thing ...

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 14:01:50 CST 2009


"That night, Elmo ate little."

Robert Aickman--"Niemandwasser" in story collection Cold Hand in Mine

On 1/16/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> "'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.
>>>
>
>



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