By Chris Eaton
Chris Eaton’s fictions learn like highbrow fisticuffs: bruising yet with greater than a slightly of moustache wax. fidgeting with notions of possession and plagiarism, Letters to Thomas Pynchon is a suite of early tales and new works. starting with an unmailed letter to Thomas Pynchon, Eaton extra riffs on literary heritage with occasional part journeys into imprecise — in all probability faux — heritage, misplaced cinemas, and NASA’s music list. With a feeling of gravity and humor, Letters to Thomas Pynchon proves that originality is usually an artist’s hardest sparring accomplice.
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It’s okay. . ” RAG TAG While it could be attributed to simple, gratuitous nudity, the rending of Annie’s clothing (and the subsequent casting of said clothing, piece by piece, into the ocean) is meant to symbolize a change in her, reminiscent of the chrysalis maturing and a butterfly emerging. So Annie stood roughly three-quarter, her right leg extended behind her to emphasize its leanness, the curve up her thigh interrupted only slightly by the rise of her buttocks, dipping into the small of her back, sliding over her shoulders and down .
WOLF? The last person to see Martin before this foolish, foolish venture was Annie. 67 on June 20, 1995. 50. This means very little except that the time of Martin’s fall coincides with my writing of this story. 71), it is quite probable that Martin struck the surface of the water just as I typed the word Splash! 43. The cliff was not as high as earlier accounts would have led you to believe. OLD MOTHER WITCH It would be wrong to place all the blame for this story on Edith Fowke. She has done nothing but unconsciously create a framework into which I have placed Martin.
Germany. Or even England vs. Germany and the Soviet Union. They have the World Cup for that. They have the Olympics. This is just the world — and mostly Europe, really, at this stage — returning Britain’s favor. Here’s your salad bowl. Your casserole of colonialism. The seeds of change, carried across the North Sea on the wings of giant, misguided, post-historic birds that buzz like insects and are easily distracted by bright things. KABOOM! There goes the tannery. KABLOOIE! Two tasteless bakeries and a sweets shop; a cobbler that specializes in galoshes; a boutique that sells nothing but marmalades; his father’s elementary school, just days after he started attending it.
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