Grasping for V. Group Read

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 13 10:27:22 CDT 2010


As is 'the mine sweeper Impulsive"......hilarious 

As is Dewey Gland, which name, when he was told it, made V. Nabokov laugh and laugh.....almost to deweyness

Too-earnest a belated thought after the above: why did P use the jump threw a window trope
again in Vineland?.....I might say in my lit crit mode: what was the talk of drunken sailors in
America in 1955 became real in 70s America......



----- Original Message ----
From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sun, June 13, 2010 11:20:27 AM
Subject: Re: Grasping for V. Group Read

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

>
>P.S. "best technique for jumping thru a plate glass window"....points to Vineland of course. 
>one potential berserk.......

When to shout Geronimo?  Just plain funny.  How could you not want to read further?

Laura


      



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