favorite Pynchon invention

[Ian Livingston]

You can yo-yo sober.


On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Don Antenen <dantenen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yes, I wasn't sure what the right word was, but 'invention' seems the
> closest fit.
>
> Another would have to be yo-yoing. Alas, as a teetotaler, I've never had
> the pleasure...
>
> all the best,
> Donald
>
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> *From:* Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>
> *To:* Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Don Antenen <dantenen at yahoo.com>; "pynchon-l at waste.org" <
> pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 30, 2012 1:48 PM
> *Subject:* Re: favorite Pynchon invention
>
> Remembering that Shakespeare used the word invention to mean discovery...
>
> I reckon Dixon is my favorite of Pynchon's Inventions, if I dare call him
> that.
>
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> V. Not the novel, or the women posited as designees of the initial, but
> the Stencilate enigma that must be unremittingly sought after as She Who Is
> Other Than Mother, Lover, or Crone, and cared for with all it is within the
> devotee to give.
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Don Antenen <dantenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> My dad and I were arguing the other day about which is the best Pynchon
> 'invention'... the Schwarzkommandos or W.A.S.T.E.? It is tough, but I have
> to say W.A.S.T.E.
>
> What say you?
>
> all the best,
> Donald
>
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>
> --
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
> the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
> reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
> groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
> urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
>
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-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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