COL 49 A Request of Any Long Timer

[Robert Z]

There’s a Kute detail in the cover art. The cancellation stamp is dated 5 July 1965. Independence Day would have been the day before — a Sunday in 1965. Therefore Monday the 5th would have been the observed national holiday. Only a Potsmaster would have been working that day.

On Apr 28, 2018, 4:06 PM -0500, 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
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> > > >
> > >
> > >
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