TP's blurb for Robbins

[Mark Kohut]

I say they are good stuff too. Perhaps underrated (as so many " comic"--like Rabelais, even Chaucer, are ( I say Chaucer cause some think he's even greater than Shakespeare and Milton, but I'm still too full of the gravity of it all to feel Them that way. I recently read a later Robbins
That was "deeper" I.e, more intellectual, than I expected and remembered. Could be annotated to some good effect. 

See Robbins on mayonnaise too. Then Pynchon. 

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> On Dec 10, 2015, at 4:58 AM, Jemmy Bloocher <jbloocher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I know it's not great stuff, but I enjoyed Robbins' novels. Light reading though they are, nonetheless entertaining and I've certainly come across much worse.
> 
>> On 10 Dec 2015 09:55, "matthew cissell" <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     Speaking of blurbs, where did I read that there was some grumbling from parts of the Pynchon fan base about the blurb for Robbins? Does that sound familiar to anyone? I don't think I'm making that up. Pre-Plist days so no archive to go by. Did it come up anywhere in print?
>> 
>>    As a side note, Robbins and Pynchon were both in Seattle (having gone west to leave home behind) in the early 60's, both did military service in the mid 50's military service, being members of the silent generation they were more proto-hippies than hippies (to quote Robbins) and as such eventually questioned and rebelled against their conservative upbringings.
>> 
>> I think it likely that they would have met at least once.
>> 
>> Hope you're all well
>> mc otis
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