V2nd, C3

[Mark Kohut]

Moment of backfill....the opening line of Chap 3 with the three comparisons of 
what V. is to Stencil...
spread thighs, migratory birds, tool bit......

Just got my Grant Companion and see he quotes one Chambers who says it shows 
Stencil relentless
upcoming pursuit, which seems true enough, but after looking up 'tool bit" I 
think we also have 3 V' shapes here.

Am I the only one just getting this?.......



----- Original Message ----
From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, July 18, 2010 1:18:14 PM
Subject: Re: V2nd, C3

Got that whole plate of shrimp thing going here, Alice. I just broke
down and purchased Thick as a Brick on cd. My old vinyl has been past
all hope for decades, already. That young Ian Anderson was quite a
fellow. Borrowing from classical, jazz, blues and rock'n'roll, not to
mention a dozen or so poetic and dramatic progenitors to create
something altogether ballsy and new. Of course, he is also supported
by a cast of first rate musical talents.

I hold the position that young Pynchon is at least as brilliant.

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:41 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's kinda feeleth like Thick as a Brick, with Anderson rolling his
> lusty eyes up into his red broom riding as he kicks a foot out for
> good measure and blows his floot for ya. It feels like new shoes worn
> at the heels and sand castle virtues swept away. Ha, hu, hu, and away
> he plays his pipe. Maybe wise men do know how it feeeeeels to be thick
> as a brick.
>
> http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=toHlMD50eYY
>
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Michael Bailey
> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Mark Kohut wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I can laugh at him....eh, Hank, don't you see how ridiculous you sound when 
>>you
>>> talk about yourself?....
>>> Now, tell me more about the public figures you've seen and known, please.
>>
>> nah, thcrew them guys, I'd say; tell me more about how it feelth
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Yippy dippy dippy,
>> Flippy zippy zippy,
>> Smippy gdippy gdippy, too!
>> - Thomas Pynchon ("'Zo Meatman's Gone AWOL")
>>
>



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