COL 49 A Request of Any Long Timer

[Mark Kohut]

I believe we have a WINNER!...

That Plist overachiever, always punching above his brains, moi (as the
French critic would say)

It is in here, I believe, "A Re--Cognition of her Errand into the
Wilderness".
https://www.amazon.com/New-Essays-Crying-American-Novel/dp/0521388333

"You're welcome", the auctioneer scries...

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Didn't mean to be cryptic..
>
> It was an extensive essay on Crying.....I recall it being much celebrated
> by the list.
>
> I'm going to be very embarrassed when it is found.
>
>
> love,
>
> cfa
>
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018, 3:58 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just meant....
>>
>> was this Dylan-dropping Frenchman actually talking about Pynchon
>>
>> or did a Lister drop some motions or words from the Dylan-dropper on
>> Pynchon.
>>
>> It really is akin to the textual search in Lot 49, I guess.....
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 3:49 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sat, Apr 28, 2018, 3:48 PM
>>> Subject: Re: COL 49 A Request of Any Long Timer
>>> To: me <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> Depends on how you feel about COL 49, I guess...
>>>
>>> I'm on that train myself..
>>>
>>> love,
>>> cfa
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018, 3:40 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Was it a seminal work of Pynchon (at least) criticism?
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 2:16 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> In the course of going through this more than a decade ago, someone
>>> >> brought
>>> >> the attention of the list to a seminal work of criticism by what I
>>> vaguely
>>> >> recall was someone French who dropped a lot of Dylan allusions.
>>> >>
>>> >> Can anyone help?
>>> >>
>>> >> I want to provide it to a stranger on a train who actually answered
>>> the
>>> >> question:
>>> >>
>>> >> "If you're not reading Brockden Brown about late 18th cent. America,
>>> where
>>> >> are you going?"
>>> >>
>>> >> without a moment's hesitation.
>>> >>
>>> >> I know, right?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> love,
>>> >> cfa
>>> >> --
>>> >> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> --
>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>
>>
>>