COL 49 A Request of Any Long Timer

[Charles Albert]

You are a beautiful man.

thank you.


love,

cfa


On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>> >> --
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>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> >
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>