Pynchon & mayonnaise? Why?

[Keith Davis]

But then, what do I know?

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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