Pynchon's back catalogue

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: Pynchon's back catalogue


> On Jul 27, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
>>>
>> Please stop shouting.
>
> "What, you—you guys gamble, w-with federal funds? Holy cow,
> maybe there is a budget squeeze around here!"
>
> "We're nobody's protégé this administration, State Department
> hates our ass, NSC thinks we're scum, if Customs don't steal it
> out from under us, Justice and FBI try to either run it or fuck it up,
> and frankly," lowering his voice, "notice how cheap coke has
> been since '81? However in the world do you account for that?"
>
> "Roy! Is you're sayin' the President himself is duked into some
> deal? Quit foolin'! Next you'll be tellin' me George Bush."
>
> Roy kept a prop Bible on his desk, useful when he needed to
> get along with the born-agains in the Agency. He opened it and
> pretended to read. "Harken unto me, read thou my lips, for verily
> I say that wheresoever the CIA putteth in its meathooks upon
> the world, there also are to be found those substances which
> God may have created but the U.S. Code hath decided to
> control. Get me? Now old Bush used to be head of CIA, so you
> figure it out."
> Vineland, pages 353/354
>
>

That's better.

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