The Trouble With Witty Flights: A Grave Allusion
The Trouble with Witty Flights: A Grave Allusion
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‘You know, Ombindi’s eyes rolled the other way, looking up at a mirror-image of Enzian that only he can see, ‘there’s. . . well, something you ordinarily wouldn’t think of as erotic–but it’s really the most erotic thing there is.’ –Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow Allusion 7: Suicide The above cit …
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Napoli
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I have now been in Napoli for four days. The way down here was fraught with peril, meaning that the hostels were total crap and the people unfriendly and I kept getting ripped off and dealing with assholes. Then the Hostel of the Sun by Castle Nuovo saved my trip. This is a proper hostel, the kind o …
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Did You Know…
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…That one of the writers for WKRP in Cincinnati was a trans-woman? PJ Torokvei died last week at age 62 of liver failure, she had transitioned twelve years earlier. She was a comedian and writer on Second City and SCTV and she was a friend of John Candy and wrote many of his movies such as Caddyshac …
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Adventure classics — Sex, mice & Charlie Gordon
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes # Oh, man, I was all set in this July of science fiction adventures to peg the tale of Charlie Gordon, with his IQ of 68, as an example of human hubris in the face of nature, a la last Wednesday’s Island of Dr. Moreau. I underestimated the sex. Because Charlie’s …
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