An unexpected friendship? Was to me. And most/all? of the Plisters, I suggest

Wed Feb 5 15:15:20 UTC 2020

The last word...

https://youtu.be/SidxNHaOpf0

Oh G*d, I miss them...

love,
cfa

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 5:43 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a belated remark reminding that *Inherent Vice* might be
> said to have cunnilingus as a sub-theme. I say, among other reasons,
> a social and cultural insight from our guy.
>
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 6:53 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> When I was contemplating cunnilingus tutorials in literature yesterday
>> evening, an Asian classic came across my mind ...
>>
>> This tantric Tamil poem stems from the late Middle Ages. Its title means
>> TREATISE ON THE ARROW OF LUST, and the translation was done by Kamil
>> Zvelebil.
>>
>> * KAMAPANACASTIRAM
>>
>> First Stage:
>>
>> Like a cow which licks tenderly its calf
>> spread out your tongue broad
>> and lick her yoni
>> lapping up the juices oozing out
>> like a thirsty dog which laps cold water.
>>
>> Second Stage:
>>
>> Like a worshipper who circumambulates the shrine
>> pass your tongue over her yoni
>> round around from left to right,
>> moving in ever narrowing circles
>> till you reach the very centre.
>> Her yoni will open up
>> like a dark and gaping chasm.
>> Open then the vulva's lips
>> with firm pressure of your tongue
>> and insert its stiff tip inside
>> like a spear's powerful thrust,
>> digging, poking deep and far.
>>
>> Third Stage:
>>
>> With your nose pressing against the YONIMANI [clitoris]
>> your tongue enters her innermost shrine
>> thrusting and digging and piking deep.
>> Searching for hidden treasures inside.
>> Inhale deeply, breathing in the mellow odours
>> of the juices of her yoni.
>>
>> Fourth Stage:
>>
>> Taking the protruding, throbbing jewel of her yoni
>> gently, gently between your teeth and tongue,
>> suck it like a suckling feeding at the breast;
>> it will rise and glisten, stand up from its sheath.
>> It will swell like a large ruby.
>> The fragrant copious discharge
>> appearing like sweet foam
>> between the lips of the vulva
>> is a rejuvenating drink when mixed with your milk-white
>> lustrous, thick and fragrant sperm.*
>>
>>
>> Quoted after David Gordon White: Kiss of the Yogini. "Tantric Sex" in
>> its South Asian Contexts. London 2003: The University of Chicago Press,
>> pp. 74-75.
>>
>> Am 23.01.20 um 14:10 schrieb Charles Albert:
>> > The Day of The Jackal was excellent pulp...
>> >
>> > Included a great cunnilingus tutorial, which one impressionable lad
>> took to
>> > heart many decades ago.
>> >
>> > Thanks Fred....wherever you are.
>> >
>> >
>> > love,
>> >
>> > cfa
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:56 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> + ... "DEAR TOM GUINZBURG WHEREVER YOU ARE, I THOUGHT YOU WOULD LIKE TO
>> >> KNOW I'M NUMBER EIGHT AND MY FRIEND FREDDIE IS NUMBER TWO."/ Pynchon
>> was
>> >> referring to the fact that Frederick Forsyth's second thriller, THE
>> >> ODESSA FILE, was No. 2 on the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller list and
>> >> GRAVITY'S RAINBOW was No. 8 ... +
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> https://books.google.de/books?id=btgXCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT127&lpg=PT127&dq=frederick+forsyth+pynchon&source=bl&ots=XzztUaCr-x&sig=ACfU3U2w-d_zdetjCnDUBZyOPsvwhe1IvA&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB9fPp0ZTnAhVS4aQKHZaLBZQQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=frederick%20forsyth%20pynchon&f=fals
>> >> <
>> >>
>> https://books.google.de/books?id=btgXCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT127&lpg=PT127&dq=frederick+forsyth+pynchon&source=bl&ots=XzztUaCr-x&sig=ACfU3U2w-d_zdetjCnDUBZyOPsvwhe1IvA&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB9fPp0ZTnAhVS4aQKHZaLBZQQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=frederick%20forsyth%20pynchon&f=false
>> >> e
>> >>
>> >> One might infer that the friendship began around the time of Freddie's
>> >> first book, a runaway bestseller,* The Day of the Jackal.* 1971 His
>> >> publisher was
>> >>   Viking. Pynchon's publisher..
>> >>
>> >> *“The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The
>> Manchurian
>> >> Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold seem like Hardy Boy
>> >> mysteries.”—The New York Times    ( memory or recreated one: made me
>> want
>> >> to read it---but I didn't) *
>> >>
>> >> Such a quote *would *appeal to TRP. We know he has read Le Carre and
>> liked
>> >> him without reservations of 'genre'. We also seem to know that he
>> often,
>> >> through his agent, Ms Donadio and other industry insiders, got new
>> books to
>> >> read before they were published*. Catch--22* seems almost
>> circumstantially
>> >> provable as just one he read before publication.
>> >>
>> >> Then there is the forgotten Richard Condon. of *The Manchurian
>> Candidate.
>> >> *Once
>> >> compared to "satirists" like, O, Thomas Pynchon and some other black
>> >> humorists. (Latterly, discredited for some plagiarism, including,
>> someone
>> >> showed, passages of MC 'taken' from Graves,* I, Claudius.! *[A
>> post-modern
>> >> mixer before the mix times? ] Famous for his* LISTS!*! Pynchon list
>> fans.
>> >> Famous for extended metaphors ---"complex sentences that go bang at the
>> >> end"...and for
>> >> the fiction of information. Condon to Pynchon, like those
>> >> lost English writers who did the inferior Hamlets and King Lears before
>> >> Shakey?
>> >> Wikipedia: "The fiction of information"[edit
>> >> <
>> >>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Condon&action=edit&section=4
>> >> ]
>> >>
>> >> Condon's works are difficult to categorize precisely: A 1971 *Time
>> magazine
>> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_magazine>* review declared that,
>> >> "Condon was never a satirist: he was a riot in a satire factory. He
>> raged
>> >> at Western civilization and every last one of its works. He
>> decorticated
>> >> the Third Reich, cheese fanciers, gossip columnists and the Hollywood
>> star
>> >> system with equal and total frenzy." [6]
>> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Condon#cite_note-6> The
>> headline of
>> >> his obituary in *The New York Times* called him a "political
>> novelist",[7]
>> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Condon#cite_note-NYT-7> but
>> went on
>> >> to say that, "Novelist is too limited a word to encompass the world of
>> Mr.
>> >> Condon. He was also a visionary, a darkly comic conjurer, a student of
>> >> American mythology and a master of conspiracy theories, as vividly
>> >> demonstrated in 'The Manchurian Candidate.'"[7]
>> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Condon#cite_note-NYT-7>
>> Although
>> >> his
>> >> books combined many different elements, including occasional outright
>> >> fantasy and science fiction, they were, above all, written to
>> entertain the
>> >> general public. He had, however, a genuine disdain, outrage, and even
>> >> hatred for many of the mainstream political corruptions that he found
>> so
>> >> prevalent in American life. In a 1977 quotation, he said that:[8]
>> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Condon#cite_note-8>
>> >>
>> >> "...people are being manipulated, exploited, murdered by their
>> servants,
>> >> who have convinced these savage, simple-minded populations that they
>> are
>> >> their masters, and that it hurts the head, if one thinks. People accept
>> >> servants as masters. My novels are merely entertaining persuasions to
>> get
>> >> the people to think in other categories."
>> >>
>> >> With his long lists of absurd trivia and "mania for absolute details",
>> >> Condon was, along with Ian Fleming
>> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming>, one of the early
>> exemplars of
>> >> those called by Pete Hamill <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hamill>
>> in
>> >> a *New York Times* review, "the practitioners of what might be called
>> the
>> >> New Novelism... Condon applies a dense web of facts to fiction....
>> There
>> >> might really be two kinds of fiction: the fiction of sensibility and
>> the
>> >> fiction of information... As a practitioner of the fiction of
>> information,
>> >> no one else comes close to him."[9]
>> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Condon#cite_note-9>
>> >> Quirks and characteristics[edit
>> >> <
>> >>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Condon&action=edit&section=5
>> >> ]
>> >>
>> >> Condon attacked his targets wholeheartedly but with a uniquely original
>> >> style and wit that made almost any paragraph from one of his books
>> >> instantly recognizable. Reviewing one of his works in the
>> *International
>> >> Herald Tribune*, playwright George Axelrod
>> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Axelrod> (*The Seven Year Itch
>> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Year_Itch_(play)>*, *Will
>> Success
>> >> Spoil Rock Hunter
>> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Success_Spoil_Rock_Hunter>*), who
>> had
>> >> collaborated with Condon on the screenplay for the film adaptation of
>> *The
>> >> Manchurian Candidate*, wrote:
>> >>
>> >> "The arrival of a new novel by Richard Condon is like an invitation to
>> a
>> >> party.... the sheer gusto of the prose, the madness of his similes, the
>> >> lunacy of his metaphors, his infectious, almost child-like joy in
>> composing
>> >> complex sentences that go bang at the end in the manner of exploding
>> cigars
>> >> is both exhilarating and as exhausting as any good party ought to be."
>> >> --
>> >> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>> >>
>> > --
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>>
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