hmm which pynchon quote...

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 06:52:28 CST 2012


Getting a bit huffy, no?

On Monday, November 19, 2012, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:

>
> First of all, this is not really a Pynchon quote.
>
> Second of all, you screwed it up.
>
> And then, by not mentioning the actual author, you seem to be following
> "the current Slothrop's grandfather Frederick (d. 1933), who in typical
> sarcasm and guile bagged his epitaph from Emily Dickinson, without  a
> credit line" (GR, p. 27), for reasons of unconscious identification with
> the text, I guess.
>
> The first strophe of poem # 479 by Emily Dickinson goes like this:
>
> *Because I could not stop for Death -**
> **He kindly stopped for me -**
> **The Carriage held but just Ourselves -**
> **And Immortality**.**
> *
> On 19.11.2012 04:53, David Morris wrote:
>
>  An obvious choice:
>
>  Because I could stop for Death
> He kindly stopped for me.
>
>
>
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