Pynchon & mayonnaise? Why?

[Keith Davis]

I've enjoyed Tom Robbins a lot, but I don't know if they stand up to
re-reading.

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:12 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> I was young, but it's all relative.  I wasn't thirteen ....
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> To: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:28 pm
> Subject: Re: Pynchon & mayonnaise? Why?
>
>  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."
> >
>
>


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