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[Ian Livingston]

Congratulations on the honor, Keith, and the good time on stage. Sometimes
good things happen to good folks. Nice snag on the books, too!

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:19 PM, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:

> It’s interesting where one finds books. After I had gotten the P bug but
> hadn’t read it, I found an old beat up copy of V in a used book store in
> Kuta Beach, Bali. On the flight back to Dubai I took it out to read as the
> plane was loading passengers. A coulee of women speaking German were
> settling down in front of me and one glanced back and saw the book. She was
> quite familiar with P and started a conversation with me. Seems she edited
> a small literary journal and had just published an article on P. She showed
> it to me with a picture she was quite proud of. It was her in  man’s hat
> and overcoat, her head turned away. The site of the picture was, “Thomas
> Pynchon??”. It was one of the more interesting flights  I’ve been on.
>
> Lawrence
>
> On Sep 24, 2017, at 9:09 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I played in the Savannah Jazz Festival this weekend, and was inducted into
> the Coastal Jazz Hall of Fame. Played with some old friends, and with Javon
> Jackson, a name sax player. Great stuff!
> I took the long way home today <IMG_2315.JPG>
> and visited some old haunts. In Beaufort, SC, where I lived and played for
> a while, I stopped for a walk by the waterfront, and by chance, there was a
> used book sale, 20 minutes left... I found a first edition paperback of
> Gravity's Rainbow, and a Finnegan's Wake. $1.75!
>
> --
> www.innergroovemusic.com
>
>
>
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