44 Here Comes Coy to Save the Motherland

[alice wellintown]

Michael Bailey>
> Further, the gradual, not-at-all-pain-free, and obviously incomplete
> rapprochement between human-qua-human ("vogelfrei" aka Zoyd) coming to grips
> with government, and in their interactions with government's minions reminding
> them cleverly, perseverantly and poignantly of their own humanity is
> what I tend to see - but it is a figure-ground thing and the dystopia is
> equally prominent...it's just not the savory part...

If I want a savory dish of characters cut close to the bone, pricking
and pleasing the poignant buds of palate sweet, sour, salty, pungent,
I will not spend a penny at Pynchon's broom closet kitchen. Mine is a
spoiled appetite, one that savors with senses five or six and would
sooner eat ideas from  dustbins swept by historian-revisionist brooms
than a spinner of yarns less he fill my ears to a swollen satisfaction
with beautiful words. This IV is meat I tire of cutting into with
sharpened blade only to break a tooth on its bones.