V Group Read - tentative schedule

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From: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: V Group Read - tentative schedule


> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:19 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Like, man, I did see that bowling flick with the rug and the crazy
>> bitch who paints canvas from a swing, but, like I know about the rug,
>> but like wha? Wha the fuck are you talking about? The rug? Try reading
>> what I'm posting on Cuckoo's Nest. Try reading Cuckoo's Nest. Like P's
>> V ain't that far from the Big Nurse. The big nurse, dude, not the Big
>> Bowling freak.
>>
>
>
> do you think Kesey had read V.?  do you suppose the wild goose v passage 
> you
> cited was a nod?  I think I remember reading a nod to Tolstoy into a 
> passage in
> _Sometimes a Great Notion_ and great explication of Coltrane too, not to 
> mention
> echoes of Kerouac all amid a woolly thing of his own also...
>
> He was actually quite an accomplished author, imho, so me, I'd say,
> sure, probably...
>
> pretty much opposite of personality type, in terms of seeking the public 
> eye,
> as versus our list-inspiration...

P as a Merry Prankster? That's an alternate universe. P as Neal? Sounds like 
a PK Dick novel.


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