just learned today in the wake of below

[Mark Kohut]

The desk in the US President's office is made of wood from
the USS Resolute..........

and it isn't Pynchon's world, Wood implies.....hah!



----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: kelber at mindspring.com
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, June 13, 2010 11:27:22 AM
Subject: Re: Grasping for V. Group Read

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