Grasping for V. Group Read. Thomas Pynchon: 'I still don't even know for sure what a tendril is.'

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Fri Jun 11 10:10:56 CDT 2010


On Jun 11, 2010, at 8:02 AM, Joseph Tracy wrote:

> Yeaahhh. Well, You probly don't know what a tendril is either, ya  
> big dummy.

I beg to differ with a pointed pinky.

> And who are you to start in about my bodily odors, ya old goat - 
> breath mule.

Please—that's "Skunk Breathed-Bonobo," if you don't mind—SIR!

I haven't ranted about your unfortunate ancestry—Yet.

> Besides that, why does the old boy need to gross us out anyway, huh?  
> MR. smarty pants?

Let me check my un-cracked copy of "Anti-Oedipus" here . . .




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