On the Thomas Pynchon Trail: From the Long Island of His Boyhood to the "Yupper West Side" of His New Novel

[Mark Kohut]

Dear Plist,
 
Kinda real surprised more did not opine on this piece on Pynchon. Plist is unique---even in its silences.
 
Just want to add that in it the writer states that TRP translated Cortozar's "Axolotl", which is my favorite
story from BLOW-UP AND OTHER STORIES, which was issued 'cause of that movie, and I guess is
where P's translation is???? 
 
Anyway, reading that tidbit shivered me ever so lightly because that story has been a lifelong embodied 
notion----SPOILER ALERT: narrator is so quietly obsessed with an axoltl in an aquarium, that, in the last
paragraph, he is that axoltl looking out now AT US.....
 
And, now I'm old and taken the focussed time to get a bit obsessed with TRP, so this tidbit on the story
cast an Icelandic Spar-like backward vision........
 
Life is as strange as love, eh Mikey and Sylvia?
 

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 From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Devashish Singh <singhdevashish at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>; me <mark.kohut at gmail.com> 
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Subject: Re: On the Thomas Pynchon Trail: From the Long Island of His Boyhood to the "Yupper West Side" of His New Novel
  


'Against the Day reduced to anti- capitalism by a guy who lives its comforts....'

fair point
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