COL 49 A Request of Any Long Timer

[Charles Albert]

TRIGGERED!



love,
cfa

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Robert Z <robert.zutphen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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