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

Fri Jan 31 10:43:33 UTC 2020

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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