3.20.2010

Nabokovian or Pynchonesque?


 

Mel,

You're such a good friend.  What would I have ever done without you?  How could the French Quarter meat section hold such poetic meatiness, or the rock in Central Park such slippery refuge, and lastly who else could i count on to send me a birthday card with John Gotti on it or take the battery out of their car and glide through Bayou Gauche after cocktails at the Smile Inn?  Was it really called that--that can't be true. If so it's to Difficult Reading
"A rollicking Pynchon-esque oddity, a Nabokovian linguistic obsession, and a Borgesian un-reality. House of Leaves jumps and skips and plays with ...
http://www.darkcarnival.com/recommended_pages/difficult.html

http://somanybooks.blogspot.com/2006/09/bibliotherapy-complete.htmlWordnik : pynchonesque
pynchonesque. A list by brtom. .... Pretty sure nymphet is Nabokov's word, but yes, it does turn up in Lot 49 ... Recent Lookups ...
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/pynchonesque?s=o

I heard two days ago that Spar's burnt down.  I'm pretty sure we ate alligator there and then went and watched them in the back.  But i'm sure you remember.

I'm buzzed on coffee and am waiting for my friend to get back to take her daughter to the dr.--she has 103 fever and i'm babysitting.  It's better than having kids of my own but with the pleasures of seeing a sea monkey have babies and a guinea pig do food tricks.

OX,

m.

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