V-2nd - Chapter 10 drove the little Triumph to the party...

[Mark Kohut]

AAH>>>>>>>>>>>That's "funny face" not "bunny face"....although that makes it a 
better story.


----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>; P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, November 11, 2010 5:54:40 PM
Subject: Re: V-2nd - Chapter 10 drove the little Triumph to the party...

Me, Love in the Western World and John-boy Updike.

I was led to this book in the late 60s or 70s by a review or essay
by John Updike about it. I never forgot the book. 

Years, decades, later I had the luck to meet John Updike at a cocktail gathering
prior to an award ceremony. I went up to him when he was not talking to someone.
(When I have met authors, I have always wanted to say something that most--no 
one?--
says or asks. I shudder at being heard as another same old, same old...)

So, I said something like I read LWW because of your review long ago and it 
changed
the landscape of my mind... so, my life, somehow, I guess. 

He said "Thanks, one always wonders if those reviews do anything." Then he tried 

to 
look at my name badge which I, wild, wild antiestablishment man [joke, joke] had 

decided not to wear. I told him my name and
said, I didn't expect to talk to anyone i didn't already know---meaning no one 
would come up to me because of my famous
name badge. He said, "You should wear it. You have an interesting name and kind 
of a funny face".  I smiled funnily, I guess
and didn't know what else to say. 

Was Updike's sense of social norms and propriety--of which adultery proves the 
rules, so to speak--- so fine that I was insulted for violating them? Was I even 

insulted? 

More years later I watched the movie Funny Face wherein the premise that Audrey 
Hepburn had a 'funny face" is worth smiling funnily at---
but she wasn't a classic actress beauty like maybe Grace Kelly. Astaire has the 
classic funny face but no one says it of him. Is this a
different kind of funny than what I thought I knew?

O well. Who knows. Who cares but me.


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, November 9, 2010 10:38:07 PM
Subject: Re: V-2nd - Chapter 10 drove the little Triumph to the party...

>  alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> (beer, booze and **LWW intoxication**
>

Ah. Oh.  Love in the Western World.