early influence of C of L49?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Feel better, Mark.  And write down those dreams!

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Dec 14, 2011 9:07 PM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: early  influence of C of L49?
>
>I have reread, after more than half my lifetime, during a couple nights of feverish illness (in which I had some kind of plist delirium dreams!) 
>and why not until now, I cannot explain since it so moved me, even influenced me and did move me again and I now know a man who knew him well enough to be
>called in the wee hours of the morning,
> 
>Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes.
> 
>Other plisters know it? Like it? Especially younger plisters?
> 
>Anyway, there are some crazy characters in it, their nuanced variety and American resonances were what I no longer much remembered and
>one of them, who is killed off in the story (and in the author's retelling of his death,  in more ways than one (In the retellings) and it is all 'fiction'
>--fantasy---Exley writes--- dies by an aerosol can exploding in a bathroom like a projectile into his neck. Once the Lot 49 aerosol memory 
>explodes in one's brain, the whole section about this character is very comic like Oedipa's then.....
> 
>Just connectin.