C of L 49:

[Mark Kohut]

YES! 

Part of "the meaning of life" in TRPs vision, to raise it to such a pretentious phrase. 

As with the picnic basket early in The Inconvenience which Miles trips over, not noticing what is "right under our noses".....

The communication of the quotidian; questions about one's health; thank-you notes and condolences and potato salad recipes....

--- On Sat, 7/11/09, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
> Subject: RE: C of L 49:
> To: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 10:15 AM
> Laura sez:
> 
> > You have to wonder what the 
> > content of the average W.A.S.T.E. letter is like. Does
> a 
> > clandestine postal system call for subversive
> messages?  Or 
> > will simple greetings, updates on Aunt Sadie's
> arthritis, etc. do?
> 
> Based on the wonderful picnic scenes late in Vineland *and*
> in AtD, my guess
> is that most of the traffic is potato salad recipes.
> 
> 
>