hmm which pynchon quote...

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Absolutely! :-)

On 19.11.2012 13:52, David Morris wrote:
> 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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