"1984" and "Gravity's Rainbow"

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:07 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> Robin wrote:
>> So—is your  premise that Hamlet is cutting-room floor material or  
>> is your
>> premise that Hamlet is a "materwork?"
>>
>
> somebody's probably going to get me for this, but, umm, "both/and?"

"It's Shit & Shinola!"

> Robin  has posted a lot of good material and he has an awesome  
> stereo system...

Frightening is more like it—my headphones still scare me and YOU DO  
NOT WANT TO KNOW what happened to the power supply for my Optimus 3400  
or where its parts came from.

> Campbel in his short tenure so far has referred to a buncha good books
> and quoted Blake and used "Gum Chum", one of my all time favorite
> moments in Pynchon, as a topic...

Ok, I'll bite.

> yer both write:
> it's a floor wax

. . . and only a floor wax—I will not countenance this sort of dissent  
on the p-list ! ! !

> ("whatinthenameofsenlukeareyouscrubbingthesideoftheflureofthelobbywith 
> ?"
> although where Joyce goes from there is a laugh-out-loud doubletaker
> like the Lumberjack Song...) AND a dessert topping (for "snot
> souffle")!

In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of  
Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run,  
unhemmed as it is uneven!

I declare this flame war, fired up by Temperance's torch touching upon  
this holy vessel full of everclear & ALD-52, doused by that aquarian  
jug of water in Atu 14's right hand.

> "I don't like it when people fight, I really don't!" - Chrissie Hynde,
> CREEM Magazine interview
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vruBhAlYZxM

Yeah, but she's one of those politicized Vegans, they hardly have the  
strength to hold up a runcible spoon.

> actually a good old battle royal with runcible spoons or stuffed owls
> might be just the thing to dispel the tension...but let's not get
> 86'd...

. . . though "43'd" would be more like it . . .