In Which Pynchon Makes an Appearance

[Lemuel Underwing]

Well, Dixon's a Quake-errr, apt to Hang Out in the Malay Districts of the
World... not apt to exploit tho' the Red Coat says otherwise... remember
him taking the riding crop from the drive


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:35 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com>wrote:

> You won't want to hang with Dixon if he's exploiting you because he's a
> white guy from Europe and you are a black gal from Africa.
>
> Or with Zoyd if you are his ex-lover and want to be left alone, or one of
> his daughter's girlfriends when he's fishing for jailbait.
>
> Or with Doc when he gets that name tagged to him for the work he does with
> a doctor's bag.
>
> No that I mind a man with a past, even some skeletons in the
> closet...hell, we all sin somehow, but then again, that's a moral center
> kinda idea, like jesus sez, so that won't do for you sort of moral center
> guys. Nope, it's just not gonna work out if you have to bend it like the
> Flecktone's bango string to ger bonzo back in the good Graces of the lawd.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't know. Zoyd, Doc, and Dixon all seem like good hangs with a
>> moral center of sorts.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > by Mrs. James Wood, good writer of fiction (her hubby says so too), who,
>> > however
>> > reveals she hasn't read TRP as closely as her husband hasn't either.....
>> >
>> > Yet, her point is so true and necessary to be said, IMHO....(I have
>> watched
>> > the growth of
>> > the belief that readers must LIKE a book's characters, as if fiction
>> were
>> > about all of
>> > our "nice" acquaintances, since so much of it is.....)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> http://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/56848-an-unseemly-emotion-pw-talks-with-claire-messud.html
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20130506/3fb02c26/attachment.html>