IVIV and so forth

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 21 06:13:21 CDT 2009


Perhaps a bit of a Pynchonian metaphor for living in the moment? 

--- On Sun, 9/20/09, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:

> From: Page <page at quesnelbc.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV and so forth
> To: "John Bailey" <sundayjb at gmail.com>, "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 9:32 PM
> John wrote
> 
> Reading IV repeatedly, I'm actually pretty shocked at how
> often that
> "and so forth" phrase comes up. Seriously. It's more than
> just a
> verbal tic, surely? Maybe not.
> 
> ______________________________________
> 
> I took the vague "and so forth" as a reference to a
> drug-fuzzed brain. The permanently stoned can only keep a
> few things in mind/brain before mental fog sets in. Even the
> intermittently stoned can have this problem.
> 
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