Saturday, February 27, 2021

Chapter 1: Section 4: Page 28: Line 50 (422)

 "Heaven, hell," cackled Merle Rideout.

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That is a clever sentence, correct? Sometimes Pynchon will write a sentence which feels like he came up with it to win a bet.

"What's the shortest sentence you can write that involves both heaven and hell?" posited the WASTE employee dropping off a package.
    "Oy, that's an easy one!" cackled Pynchon in a terrible Australian accent that sounded more like Dick Van Dyke's Cockney accent from Mary Poppins.

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