Pynchon is a realist after never about anything but the COUNTER culture

[Mark Kohut]

I was also thinking of the guy in AtD who can read the toilets of the Santa Barbara rich......


From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2012 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: Pynchon is a realist after never about anything but the COUNTER culture


Sewers are perfect encarnaions of WASTE.  But WASTE was always about COUNTER culture. A hidden realm!

On Saturday, July 7, 2012, Mark Kohut wrote:

"He was a sewer-rat. His friends would lower him, with a metal-detector, into the main sewer beneath the hotels of Miami
>Beach. There, he would prospect for jewelry flushed, accidently, down the toilets.
>   'It is not, I can assure you, sir,'he said, 'an unrewardiung occupation.' "
>                                                  Notebooks of Bruce Chatwin, 1980's
>
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