44 Here Comes Coy to Save the Motherland

[Mark Kohut]

If this is about more than IV, we've been there re characterization. 
But, just to say, Molly Hite, a good reader of Pynchon I believe you agreed was, did write that she knew a whole cast like The Whole Sick Crew, just for example.... 

I do not think I understand this lyrically sidled at bit...........

--- On Tue, 10/20/09, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: 44 Here Comes Coy to Save the Motherland
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 4:10 PM
>  alice wellintown  wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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.
> >
> 
> de gustibus, or non-, one might dispute
> of correspondents cute or not so cute
> like Slothrop with a beard like Hemingway's;
> of the wealth of the preterite sent into frays
> by Them who've lost their souls pursuing gain
> so ill-defined as to include others' pain;
> the mindless pleasures thinking souls spurn
> as pursuits of those who never learn
> may turn out to be in the final analysis
> - if 'twere ever performed - communion chalices
> replete with saving fluid and running o'er;
> the humble chores and fool's quests
> the tale's details that may seem to bore
> mayhap include the finest of the jests...
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> --- "Bearing in mind that either I don't know
> or it'll be my ass if I tell you, what is it, man?" - Coy
> Harlingen
>