COL49: Why the Negativity, TRP?

[Ian Livingston]

Ah, if only V. would make it so simple!

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66E4I220100715?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=69

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:34 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> love it
> in that case who's that V?
> V must be us then
> welcome to Vheissu friends
>
> rich
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Jul 19, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>>
>>> this is why I love this list.
>>
>> Alice is Stencil, more engaged in the past than the present. I am Benny, a
>> Schlemiel's schlemiel, rootlessly yo-yo-ing up and down the California
>> coast.
>>
>> If the California books are pure crap, then allow me a bit of Scatoscopy.
>> Somehow the fictional California towns that Pynchon places these stories are
>> all fully operational in my own life. Call it projection all you like,
>> Pynchon is describing particular places, particular times and he's quite
>> accurate. If you've ever been there, you would be in on the joke. I sure
>> there's more than a touch of autobiography in Doc 'n' Zoyd's wake 'n' bake
>> lifestyles. Similarly, an eye for the locales of various CIA/FBI projects
>> scattered around California in ways large and small touched on the young
>> author's life, occupations & preoccupations.
>>
>> Of course, when it comes to the scatological, hardly anything can even get
>> close to Gravity's Rainbow.
>>
>>
>



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