Fwd: M&D Deep Duck 4-6: Equator

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Heroes don't take bathroom breaks. Think of Superman and Batman, peeling off those garments, taking care to tuck their capes, every time they need to take a shit.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 26, 2015 6:07 AM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Fwd: M&D Deep Duck 4-6: Equator
>
>p. 38. "so as not to be the first to foul his britches in front of the
>others"...
>
>
>Misc.
>There was a climate of opinion about war novels out of WW1 that labeled
>the most realistic of them The Lavatory School and was very agin' them.
>Too too much on bowel movements and vomit and shit like that.
>Led by some important English critics and editors who were on the wrong side
>of literary history.......
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>Date: Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:01 AM
>Subject: Re: M&D Deep Duck 4-6: Equator
>To: Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
>
>
>Probably not, too common to pin down to THAT but........
>the phrase expressed a theme of P's times....
>There was a good novel about the sixties called
>EVERYONE KNOWS AND NOBODY CARES and
>
>i have recently seen how scholars have found bits
>of phrases, similar words and usages, sea-changed metaphors
>in Shakespeare----where Florio's Montaigne and Ovid
>and Plutarch and more were all imbibed by Shakespeare
>and reworked by his genius.
>
>We all know that
>Writers of genius suck in from everywhere, books and songs
>and movies as well as from their unmediated life and it
>comes out in ways we can hardly see.
>
>
>
>On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
><thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>> "Everybody knows that the captain lied "
>>
>> Am 23.01.2015 um 13:43 schrieb Mark Kohut:
>>>
>>> p. 31. Ethelmer sez "'Ev'ryone 'knows'".....and whenever I hear that
>>> line I think of the Leonard Cohen song:
>>
>>
>> No, I don't think it is a Cohen reference.
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