Serendipitous V. annotation/allusion found

[Richard Ryan]

Ahhhhhhh, the Nathaniel West....California's brokenhearted, hungover
answer to E.M. Forster.

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ah, umm....this is from the third chapter of Miss Lonelyhearts,
> he sez like a forgetful fool...............
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sun, April 24, 2011 1:42:01 PM
> Subject: Serendipitious V. annotation/allusion found
>
> "On that day all the inanimate things over which he had tried to obtain
> control took the field against him. When he touched something, it spilled or
> rolled to the floor" .....[more sentences showing the ganging up]...until
>
> "He fled to the street, but there chaos was multiple. Broken groups of people
> hurried
> past....[more].....until
>
> .with....'the harsh clanging sound of street cars and the raw shouts of
> hucksters. No repeated
> groups of words would fit their rhythm and no scale could give them meaning."
>
>
>



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