IVIV and so forth

[Mark Kohut]

Rich,

Here's 'where I come from". I liked it more than you or many others did, but it IS minor if it works.  And I admit I may like it because it is P more than it merits.

However, even bad books can be, what, deconstructed?, annotated. Lit history is full of layered bad books that have not survived the cut.

So, yea my remark on living in the moment is .....crazy. Over the top. 
But also, being a pothead might just be a BAD metaphor for living in the moment---which seems to be a kinda-buried theme of TRP's. 

For example, I just started rereading GR, and I am struck with how Pynchon CLEARLY, it seems to me now, has Pirate Prentice 'live in the moment'...
"pissing without a thought in his head"......then, next page, "Allowing himself to count only bananas"......

That's where my way-out thot came from. So, you refute it for its ridiculousness. It's OK by me. 
 

--- On Mon, 9/21/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV and so forth
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "John Bailey" <sundayjb at gmail.com>, "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>, "Page" <page at quesnelbc.com>
> Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 11:26 AM
> geez, guys can't you even remotely
> admit just shitty sub-standard
> writing (respectfully said to y'all)
> 
> rich
> 
> On 9/21/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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