Thinking on the....EDGE

Ian Livingston igrlivingston at gmail.com
Sun Jan 6 23:30:41 CST 2013


Doing my best zen. Will my salivary glands dry up if I salivate until
November? Maybe I'll reread Wittgenstein....


On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's hard to not think something. Takes yoga or zen powers.
>
>
> On Sunday, January 6, 2013, Phillip Greenlief wrote:
>
>> can we please not group the new pynchon novel (and inherent vice) with
>> countless (mostly bad) adjective noun titles???
>>
>> i mean: IDLE HANDS, NAKED SOULS, LETHAL WEAPON, TRUE LIES, COLLATERAL
>> DAMAGE, and numerous other schwarzenegger-infused films have those kinds of
>> titles.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> *From:* Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>> *To:* P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> *Sent:* Sun, January 6, 2013 7:17:01 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: Thinking on the....EDGE
>>
>> thanks Mark...
>>
>> chipping in, Bleeding Edge is a 2-word phrase containing an
>> adjectiv(al gerund) and a noun, just as Inherent Vice is a 2 word
>> phrase containing an adjective and a noun...two books don't make a
>> series, but still...
>>
>> like that spy guy,
>> the Alexandrine Hammock
>> the Byzantine Footlocker
>> the Caledonian Clothes-hamper
>> the Dalmatian Cheese-grater
>>
>> etc etc
>>
>
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