hmm which pynchon quote...

[David Morris]

good.


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20121119/97923c43/attachment.html>