V2, Chap 15 (Sahha), I, p 461 - "Mene, mene tekel, upharsin"

[Ian Livingston]

Makes a whole lotta sense. Writing, after all, is the very best method
of therapy for the relatively well.
I'll have to check out the movie.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> at the risk of being told to put a sock in it...
>
> before the series, there was a movie called the Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
>
> The protagonist tells his counselor at college that he wants to take
> the easiest classes possible and just concentrate on girls.  The
> counselor helps him in this quest, with maybe just a very polite
> expression of a possibility of other ideas...
>
> Strictly idiosyncratic, rigorously non-serious interpretation:
> young Pynchon, studious almost to a fault, of Anglo-French descent (a
> Pynchon was on the beach in 1066) and lean...
> fantasizes about being a very different person:
> what's the most different he could be?  Italian-Jewish, portly, and a
> non-intellectual chick magnet...blundering from one romance to
> another...
>
> but into the fantasy creeps Stencil, the slow return of the repressed,
> threatening to make sense of the whole thing...
>



-- 
"Psyche pasa athantos." --Plato