Vineland makes the list...but not IV

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jan 17, 2010, at 3:59 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> Paul Nightingale wrote:
>
>> Doc's insistence on the original name invokes the soul that has  
>> been lost
>> (and on 309 he tells Shasta he "always wanted to be" Burke). It  
>> reminds us
>> of: "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, whom Doc had admired since he was Lew  
>> Alcindor"
>> (113). Or even: "Tuesday or Cheap Pizza Nite" (11). In each case the
>> formally accepted/legally recognised term is in conflict with an  
>> informal
>> alternative.
>>
>
> like those cartoons, Rocky and Bullwinkle, where at the end of each
> episode we're invited to tune in for the next one, and my sister and I
> used to always choose one of the alternate titles: "Boris copes with a
> horrid horoscope, or, Twinkle Twinkle Bullwinkle" (or some such) -
> "Oh, I choose Twinkle Twinkle Bullwinkle!"

On Jan 17, 2010, at 3:54 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> Robin Landseadel wrote:
>> Very soon after digging up the perfumed parcel,
>> Slothrop gets sapped, Philip Marlowe style, leading to a blackout.
>
> then it hit me: what a sap she had!

I used to walk by the Jay-Ward studio's billboard on Sunset, back when  
I went to Hollywood High. "Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat?" We  
all knew [and used] lines from all the Jay/Ward enterprises, and for  
some strange reason, lines from old Firesign Theater routines continue  
to pepper our family's conversations as well. That vein of humor  
strikes me as one of Pynchon's attractions thought it's easy to see  
how certain kinds of readers might get irritated by all the word games  
and bad puns. Still, the Washington/Gershom dope smoking scene from  
"Mason & Dixon" is right out of Peabody's Improbable History via Lenny  
Bruce. Or what about "Le Mayonnaise" in AtD, or M & D's "Blinking  
L.E.D."?