Pynchon & mayonnaise? Why?

[jochen stremmel]

Are you sure you were young?
Passionate, I'm sure.

With 18 I would have hated Koons - but Robbins was okay.

He was not Kesey, of course.  I cried when I was through with I Flew
over the Cuckoo's Nest. The movie was spoiled for me when it came out.



2012/8/30  <malignd at aol.com>:
> I can't believe (I don't mean you're lying) that you or Pynchon like this
> guy.  I loathe his writing, his insufferable cuteness.  He's the literary
> equivalent of Jeff Koons, except that he didn't marry a porn star (to my
> knowledge ...).  I can still remember hurling "Cowgirls" -- the one with the
> Pynchon blurb -- across the room.  (I was young and passionate.)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thu, Aug 30, 2012 4:41 pm
> Subject: Re: Pynchon & mayonnaise? Why?
>
> Tom Robbins used to be such a kick -  read everything up to Frogs Pajamas
> and
> then it seemed that Robbins was trying just a wee bit too hard to be
> "irreverent."
>
> I read somewhere that Robbins got bored with the books he'd been reading,
> so he
> wrote the book he wanted to read.   (heh)
>
> Bekah
>
> On Aug 30, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> Found out this about Tom Robbins, whom Pynchon blurbed early, right?
>> " He has also hosted an annual mayonnaise tasting, often with more than 20
> international varieties, at his home in La Conner."
>